One reptile enthusiast, working with a handful of academics, has described a clutch of new Asian turtle species since the late 1980s. But are they what they seem? Rex Dalton reports on a herpetological débâcle.
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Dalton, R. Mock turtles. Nature 423, 219–220 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423219a
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