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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Division: Pan-Testudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira
Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Familia: Geoemydidae
Subfamilia: Geoemydinae
Genus: Malayemys
Species: M. khoratensis – M. macrocephala – M. subtrijuga
Name

Malayemys Lindholm, 1931

References

Lindholm, W. A., 1931: Uber eine angebliche Tesrudo-Art aus. Siidchina. Zoologische Anzeiger, vol. 97, p. 27—30.
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Bour, R.) 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479 Reference page.

Vernacular names
日本語: ニシクイガメ属
ไทย: เต่านา, เต่าสามสัน

Malayemys is a genus of turtles in the family Geoemydidae. It was considered monotypic until 2004. It is found in several countries of Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy

The genus description is attributed to Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm in 1931. Damonia was used by John Edward Gray in 1869, but is considered a junior homonym.[1] It was considered monotypic until 2004.[2] As of 2016, the genus consists of three species: Malayemys macrocephala, Malayemys subtrijuga and Malayemys khoratensis.[3] The name Malayemys isan[4] has been demonstrated to have not been published until after the name M. khoratensis if it was published under the code at all.[5][3]

The genus consists of three species.[1][5]

Malayemys macrocephala
Malayemys subtrijuga
Malayemys khoratensis

Distribution

Malayemys has a native distribution in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, and was introduced into Java, Indonesia.[1]
References

TTWG (Rhodin, A. G. J., Iverson, J. B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H. B. & van Dijk, P. P.) 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs, Number 7. 292 pp. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9
Brophy, T. R. 2004. Geographic variation and systematics in the south-east Asian turtles of the genus Malayemys (Testudines: Bataguridae). Hamadryad 29:63-79. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=bio_chem_fac_pubs
Ihlow, F., Vamberger, M., Flecks, M., Hartmann, T., Cota, M., Makchai, S., Meewattana, P., Dawson, J. E., Long Kheng, L., Rödder, D. & Fritz, U. 2016. Integrative Taxonomy of Southeast Asian Snail-Eating Turtles (Geoemydidae: Malayemys) Reveals a New Species and Mitochondrial Introgression. PLoS ONE 11(4):e0153108. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153108.
Montri Sumontha; Timothy R. Brophy; Kirati Kunya; Suthep Wiboonatthapol & Olivier S. G. Pauwels (2016). "A new snail-eating turtle of the genus Malayemys Lindholm, 1931 (Geoemydidae) from Thailand and Laos" (PDF). Taprobanica. The Asian Journal of Biodiversity. 8 (1): 1–9. doi:10.47605/tapro.v8i1.209.
Thomson, S. A., Lambertz, M. 2017. On the Nomenclatural Status of the Recently Described Snail-eating Turtle from Southeast Asia (Testudines, Geoemydidae): Malayemys khoratensis Ihlow et al. 2016 vs. Malayemys isan Sumontha et al. 2016. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. December 2017, 16(2):239-245 [1]PDF

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