The World’s Top 25 Endangered Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles – 2011 Presented by the TUrtLE COnservatiON COALITION Photo B.D. Horne Photo G. Kuchling Photo B.D. Horne Photo E.H. Chan Photo R. Hudson Photo R. Ghosh Photo C. Tabaka Photo C. Photo T. Zhou, W.P. McCord, T. Blanck T. McCord, W.P. Zhou, T. Photo Batagur affinis Chitra chitra Batagur kachuga Batagur baska Batagur trivittata Geochelone platynota Cuora yunnanensis Cuora aurocapitata Southern River Terrapin Asian Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle Red-crowned Roofed Turtle Northern River Terrapin Burmese Roofed Turtle Burmese Star Tortoise Yunnan Box Turtle Yellow-headed Box Turtle Photo M. Merida Photo T. Blanck T. Photo Dermatemys mawii Cuora mccordi Central American River Turtle McCord’s Box Turtle Number of tortoise and freshwater turtle species per geographic area Photo A. Cadavid Photo Photo P. Crow Photo P. Podocnemis lewyana Magdalena River Turtle Cuora trifasciata Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle Photo T. McCormack T. Photo Photo A.G.J. Rhodin Photo Rafetus swinhoei Chelonoidis abingdonii Red River Giant Softshell Turtle Pinta Island Giant Tortoise Photo R.M. Brown Photo R.A. Mittermeier Siebenrockiella leytensis Mesoclemmys hogei Philippine Forest Turtle Hoge’s Side-necked Turtle Photo A.G.J. Rhodin Photo Photo A.G.J. Rhodin Photo Photo A.G.J. Rhodin Photo Photo D. Hendrie Photo R. Reed Photo A. de Villiers A. de Photo Photo T. Blanck T. Photo Photo C. Hagen Photo G. Kuchling Astrochelys yniphora Erymnochelys madagascariensis Psammobates geometricus Cuora zhoui Batagur borneoensis Pseudemydura umbrina Mauremys annamensis Chelodina mccordi Leucocephalon yuwonoi Ploughshare Tortoise Madagascan Big-headed Turtle Geometric Tortoise Zhou’s Box Turtle Painted Terrapin Western Swamp Turtle Vietnamese Pond Turtle Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle Sulawesi Forest Turtle The Top 25 Most Endangered Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles in the World occur primarily in Asia (17 species, 68%), with 4 (16%) in Map showing the global distribution and species richness of tortoises and freshwater turtles in terms of the number of species in defined Latin America, 3 (12%) in Africa, and 1 (4%) in Australia. Priority areas of high turtle biodiversity occur in the Southeastern USA, South- drainage basins (color scale = number of species per area). Map by K.A. Buhlmann et al. (2009, CCB 8:116–149). Poster designed by east Asia and Indonesia, the Ganges-Brahmaputra drainage of South Asia, the Amazon Basin, West Africa, and Northern Australia. A.G.J. Rhodin, A.D. Walde, B.D. Horne, P.P. van Dijk, T. Blanck, R. Hudson, H.R. Quinn, E.V. Goode, and R.A. Mittermeier, 2011..