Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Yunnan Box Turtle
Common Names in German:
Yunnan-Scharnierschildkrote
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Order:
Testudines
()
- Family:
Geoemydidae or Bataguridae
()
- Subfamily:
Geoemydinae
()
- Genus:
Cuora
()
- Gray, 1855
- Specific name:
yunnanensis
- Boulenger
- Scientific name: - Cuora yunnanensis Boulenger
- Specific name:
yunnanensis
- Boulenger
- Genus:
Cuora
(
- Subfamily:
Geoemydinae
(
- Family:
Geoemydidae or Bataguridae
(
- Order:
Testudines
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Cistoclemmys galbinifrons galbinifrons Obst 2003: 17
- Cistoclemmys hainanensis King & Burke 1989
- Cuora galbinifrons galbinifrons Becker 1999
- Cuora galbinifrons serrata Iverson & Mccord 1992
- Cuora yunnanensis — Schilde 2004
- Cyclemys flavomarginata hainanensis Li 1958
- Cyclemys hainanensis Hu Djao & Huang 1975
- Cyclemys yunnanensis Boulenger 1906
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Cuora
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 33 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. amboinensis (Amboina Box Turtle; Southeast Asian Box Turtle) · C. amboinensis amboinensis (Amboina Box Turtle; Southeast Asian Box Turtle) · C. amboinensis couro · C. amboinensis kamaroma · C. amboinensis lineata · C. aurocapitata (Yellow-Headed Box Turtle) · C. cyclornata · C. cyclornata cyclornata · C. cyclornata meieri · C. flavomarginata (Yellow-Margined Box Turtle) · C. flavomarginata evelynae · C. flavomarginata flavomarginata (Yellow-Margined Box Turtle) · C. flavomarginata sinensis · C. galbinifrons (Dreistreifen-Scharnierschildkröte) · C. galbinifrons bouretti · C. galbinifrons bourreti · C. galbinifrons galbinifrons · C. galbinifrons picturata · C. hainanensis · C. mccordi (Mccord's Box Turtle) · C. mouhotii (Jagged-Shelled Turtle) · C. mouhotii mouhotii · C. mouhotii obsti · C. pallidicephala · C. pani (Yellow-Headed Box Turtle (Aurocapitata)) · C. pani aurocapitata · C. pani pani · C. pitheca · C. mouhotii · C. trifasciata (Chinese Three-Striped Box Turtle) · C. trifasciata x · C. yunnanensis (Yunnan Box Turtle) · C. zhoui (Zhou's Box Turtle)
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Further Reading
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Boulenger (1906) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 17 (102): 567-568.
- Ernst & Barbour (1989) Turtles of the World.
- Ernst (1988) Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 101: 466-470
- Ernst (1988) Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101 (1): 155-161.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.
- Iverson, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed. Richmond, Indiana. ISBN: 0-9617431-0-5.
- Joseph-Ouni (2003) Reptilia (GB) (27): 3
- Pauler (1980) Herpetofauna 2 (6): 15-18
- Schilde (2004) Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 192 pp.
- Smith (1931) Fauna British India.
- Xiangkui-Y (1994) Fossil and recent turtles China.
- Zhou et al. (2004) Sichuan Journal of Zoology 23 (4): 325-326
- Zhou, T. and Zhao, E. 2004. On the occurrence of living Cuora yunnanensis since fifty-eight years, and its description. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 23(4): 325-327.
Notes
Contributors
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2547107
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-8537
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 551914
- IUCN ID: 5957
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4043
