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Burmese Star Tortoise
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Sauropsida
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Cryptodira
Family:Testudinidae
Genus:Geochelone
Species:G. platynota
Binomial name
Geochelone platynota
(Blyth, 1863)


The Burmese Star Tortoise (Geochelone platynota) is becoming extinct in its native Myanmar (Burma). It lives in the dry, deciduous forest, and is eaten both by the native Burmese, and is traded to the Chinese, where it is sometimes found in the food markets. It is on CITES Appendix II, meaning a permit from the country of export is required. Reportedly, Myanmar has never granted an export permit, meaning most captive bred are originally from illegal tortoises, or imports grandfathered in prior to the CITES listing.

This tortoise can easily be distinguished from the more common Indian Star Tortoise by comparing the plastrons of the two species. It is considered critically endangered by the IUCN. One recent expedition searched for the Burmese star for 400 hours with specially trained dogs and 5 volunteers and only found 5 tortoises.

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critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct.

IUCN Category

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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Sauropsida*
Goodrich, 1916

Subclasses
  • Anapsida
  • Diapsida
Synonyms
  • Reptilia Laurenti, 1768
Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class
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Testudines
Linnaeus, 1758

Diversity
ca. 300 species in 14 extant families.

blue: sea turtles, black: land turtles


Suborders

Cryptodira
Pleurodira
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Cryptodira
Linnaeus, 1758

Families
  • 13, See classification


Cryptodira is the taxonomic suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles.
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Testudinidae

Genera

Chersina
Cylindraspis (extinct)
Dipsochelys
Geochelone
Gopherus
Homopus
Indotestudo
Kinixys
Malacochersus
Manouria

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Geochelone
Fitzinger, 1835

Species

G. carbonaria
G. chilensis
G. denticulata
G. elegans
G. gigantea
G. nigra
G. pardalis
G. platynota
G.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Edward Blyth (December 23, 1810 - December 27, 1873) was an English zoologist and chemist. He is known as one of the founders of Indian zoology.

Blyth was born in London in 1810.
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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1830s  1840s  1850s  - 1860s -  1870s  1880s  1890s
1860 1861 1862 - 1863 - 1864 1865 1866

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Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -
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Anthem
Kaba Ma Kyei


Capital Naypyidaw

Largest city Yangon (Rangoon)
Official languages Burmese
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G. elegans

Binomial name
Geochelone elegans
Schoepf, 1795

The Indian Star Tortoise (Geochelone elegans
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endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in number, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters.
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), created in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.
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IUCN

International Organization
Founded October 1948, Fontainebleau, France
Headquarters Rue Mauverney 28, 1196 Gland, Switzerland

Key people Mr Valli Moosa
Ms Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Industry Natural resource conservation
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