| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | REPTILIA | TESTUDINES | GEOEMYDIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Batagur baska | |||||||||
| Species Authority: | (Gray, 1830) | |||||||||
Common Name/s:
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| Synonym/s: |
Emys baska Gray, 1830
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Critically Endangered A1cd ver 2.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Assessor/s | Asian Turtle Trade Working Group | ||||||||||||||||||
| Evaluator/s: | Buhlmann, K., Rhodin, A. & van Dijk, P.P. (Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Red List Authority) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Justification: Considered Endangered in peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia; Critically Endangered in Bangladesh and India because the subpopulations are all very small and declining. It is Extinct in the Wild in Thailand (considered CR in OEPP 1997). There are no recent data and it is therefore presumed to be Extinct in Myanmar, Viet Nam and Singapore. |
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| Countries: |
Native:
Bangladesh; Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Malaysia
Regionally extinct:
Myanmar; Singapore; Thailand; Viet Nam
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| Habitat and Ecology: | Terrestrial nest sites (sandbars and riverbanks). Also tidal areas of large river estuaries. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial; Freshwater |
| Major Threat(s): | Illegally exported from Indonesia and traded in substantial numbers in China despite a CITES I listing. It occurs in small populations over its range. |
| Citation: | Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Batagur baska. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2010. |
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