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Critically EndangeredMaximum longevity: 27 years (captivity)
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Critically Endangered
- taxon name
- Platysternon megacephalum
- Commons category
- Platysternon megacephalum
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- Platysternon megacephalum
- taxon common name
- 缅甸平胸龟
- litter size
- 3
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- short name
- P. megacephalum
- taxon author citation
- Gray, 1870
- taxon range
- Yunnan
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Encyclopedic overview
The big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) is a species of turtle in the family Platysternidae from Southeast Asia and southern China.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “big-headed turtle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.