Many Southeast Asian turtle species are in rapid decline
because of serious pressure from commercial exploitation and
habitat destruction (Behler, 1997; Thirakhupt and van Dijk,
1997; van Dijk et al., 2000). Improved legislation and enforcement,
community education, population monitoring, and
life history studies are all crucial to the long-term survival of
most of these species. None of this can occur, however, without
detailed records on the geographic distribution of these
organisms. This paper presents a detailed table and map that
clearly define the geographic distribution of turtles in the genus
Malayemys. No other account is based on such a complete
compilation of data