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{{Short description|Species of turtle}}
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| status = EN
| status_system = IUCN2.3
| status_ref = <ref>Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000.  [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/39549/all Chinemys megalocephala].   [https://web.archive.org/web/20140627094911/http://www.iucnredlist.org/ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ]  Downloaded on 29 July 2007.</ref>
| genus = Mauremys
| species = megalocephala
| authority = (Spinks ''et al.'', 2004)
| synonyms = *''Chinemys megalocephala'' {{small|(Fang, 1934)}}
*{{Nowrap|''Chinemys macrocephala'' {{small|([[René Léon Bourret|Bourret]], 1941)}} {{smaller|(''[[ex errore]]'')}}}}
*''Chinemys megacephala'' {{small|(Gurley, 2003)}} {{smaller|(''[[ex errore]]'')}}
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="Fritz 2007">{{Cite journal|journal=Vertebrate Zoology |title=Checklist of Chelonians of the World |year=2007 |author=Fritz Uwe |author2=Peter Havaš |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=231 |doi=10.3897/vz.57.e30895 |doi-access=free |issn=1864-5755 }}</ref>
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The '''Chinese broad-headed pond turtle''' ('''''Mauremys megalocephala''''') is a species of [[turtle]] in the family [[Geoemydidae]].
It is endemic to [[China]].
The species may be a synonym of the [[Chinese pond turtle|Reeve's turtle]], having simply been described from Reeve's turtles with megacephaly, a condition associated with much larger and broader heads.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Iverson |first1=John B. |last2=Ernst |first2=Carl H. |last3=Gotte |first3=Steve |last4=Lovich |first4=Jeffrey E. |date=1989-05-23 |title=The Validity of Chinemys megalocephala (Testudines: Batagurinae) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1445452 |journal=Copeia |volume=1989 |issue=2 |pages=494 |doi=10.2307/1445452|jstor=1445452 }}</ref>
==References==
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{{Geoemydidae}}
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[[Category:Chinemys]]
[[Category:Reptiles of China]]
[[Category:Endangered biota of Asia]]
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1934]]
[[Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot]]
[[Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN]] <!-- Mauremys megalocephala -->
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