Heosemys grandis (Giant Asian Pond Turtle)
The common name of this Freshwater-Turtle in English is commonly called Giant Asian Pond Turtle and Thai name called เต่าหวาย (Dtao Waai).
เต่าหวาย : Heosemys grandis (Gray, 1860)
Heosemys grandis is a species of the Asian Pond Turtle Genus (Heosemys) within the Freshwater Pond Turtle Family (Geoemydidae), Superfamily Testudinoidea, in the Suborder Cryptodira, in the Turtles Order (Testudines), in the Reptile Class (Reptilia), in the Chordate Phylum (Chordata) in the Animal Kingdom (Animalia).
Published in Gray,J.E. On some new species of mammalia and tortoises from Cambojia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 6: 217-218. (1860).
Geographic Range
The range of Heosemys grandis occurs in southern Viet Nam, the plain areas of Lao PDR, Cambodia, Southeastern Myanmar, central, eastern, and Peninsular Thailand, and western Peninsular and central Malaysia.
Habitat and Ecology
Heosemys grandisinhabits flooded forests, slow moving rivers and swamps and wetlands.
Generation length is estimated at 37 years (age of first reproduction = 15 years, longevity = 70, reproductive period = 55, z = 0.4). Three generations is 111 years
Type locality: Cambojia [= Cambodia]
Synonym
- Geoemyda grandis John Edward Gray (1860)
- Clemmys grandis Alexander Strauch (1862)
- Geoemyda grandis John Edward Gray (1873)
- Heosemys grandis Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1902)
- Cyclemys grandis W. Lorenz (1984)
- Heosemys grandis Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
- Heosemys grandis Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
- Heosemys grandis Nguyen Van Sang et al. (2009)