Endangered Black Marsh Turtle, Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray, 1831) (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae): distribution extension and first record from Belitung Island, Indonesia

Veryl Hasan; Josie South; Fitri Sil Valen; Sapto Andriyono

doi:10.15560/19.4.505

Check List 19(4): 505-508, doi: 10.15560/19.4.505

Endangered Black Marsh Turtle, Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray, 1831) (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae): distribution extension and first record from Belitung Island, Indonesia

Veryl Hasan^‡, Josie South^§, Fitri Sil Valen^|¶, Sapto Andriyono^#

‡ Airlangga Unversity, Surabaya, Indonesia§ University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom| Brawijaya university, Malang, Indonesia¶ Generasi Biologi Indonesia Foundation, Gresik, Indonesia# Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

Corresponding author: Veryl Hasan ( veryl.hasan@fpk.unair.ac.id )

Academic editor: Ross MacCulloch

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Hasan V, South J, Valen FS, Andriyono S (2023) Endangered Black Marsh Turtle, Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray, 1831) (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae): distribution extension and first record from Belitung Island, Indonesia. Check List 19(4): 505-508. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.4.505

Abstract

Black Marsh Turtle, Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray, 1831), is a freshwater turtle native across Southeast Asia and is categorized as Endangered according to the IUCN Red List. We report the first record of this species from Belitung, a remote island in Indonesia, based on photographs. The new record is approximately 200 km to the east of the nearest locality in Sumatra, and 250 km to the west of the nearest locality in Borneo.

Keywords

Biogeography, ecology, swamp, freshwater turtle, wetland