Pan's box turtle

Pan's box turtle
Pan's box turtle, Cuora pani pani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Cryptodira
Family:Geoemydidae
Genus:Cuora
Species: C. pani
Binomial name
Cuora pani
Song, 1984
Synonyms[1]
  • Cuora pani Song, 1984
  • Cuora chriskarannarum
    Ernst & McCord, 1987
  • Cuora chriskarannorum [sic]
    Obst & Reimann, 1994 (ex errore)
  • Cuora pani pani — Artner, 2003
  • Pyxiclemmys pani pani
    — Vetter, 2006

Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). The yellow-headed box turtle is sometimes included herein as a subspecies Cuora pani aurocapitata.

Plastron

Etymology

The specific name, pani, is probably in honor of Chinese herpetologist Pan Lei.[2]

Pan's box turtle was described for the first time in 1984. An ability of these turtles to seal themselves within the shell has led to giving them the common name of 'box turtle'.[3]

Geographic range

Cuora pani pani, the nominotypical subspecies, is endemic to the central Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hubei (Blanck & Tang, 2005).[4]

References

  1. ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 218. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cuora pani, p. 200).
  3. ↑ "Pan's box turtle videos, photos and facts - Cuora pani". Arkive. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  4. ↑ "Cuora pani (Pan's Box Turtle)". www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  • Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Cuora pani". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T5956A97359782. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T5956A11949874.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR A1d+2d).

Further reading

  • Blanck T, Tang M (2005). "Ein neuer Fundort von Cuora pani SONG, 1984 mit Diskussion über den taxonomischen Status von Cuora pani und Cuora aurocapitata". SACALIA 7 (3), 2005: 16-37.
  • Song, Ming-tao (1984). "A new species of the turtle genus Cuora (Testudoformes: Testudinidae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 9 (3): 330-332. (Cuora pani, new species). (in Chinese, with summary in English).


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