typhlonectes: Current Work in Herpetology:Newly Described Turtle from Thailand Researchers of the Zo
typhlonectes:Current Work in Herpetology:Newly Described Turtle from ThailandResearchers of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig - Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany, and the Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, Germany, who worked in close collaboration with scientists from the USA, Thailand, and Cambodia, recently discovered a new turtle species in northeastern Thailand which was subsequently described as Malayemys khoratensis in the scientific journal PloS One. Genetic data revealed a third, so far completely unkown species… (read more: IDW)photographs by F. Ihlow -- source link