Zhou's box turtle

Zhou's box turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Cryptodira
Family:Geoemydidae
Genus:Cuora
Species: C. zhoui
Binomial name
Cuora zhoui
Zhao, Zhou & Ye, 1990
Synonyms[1]

Cuora pallidicephala Mccord & Iverson, 1991

  • Cuora zhoui Zhao, 1990
  • Cuora pallidicephala McCord & Iverson, 1991
  • Pyxiclemmys zhoui Vetter, 2006

Zhou's box turtle (Cuora zhoui) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). Apparently endemic to China, it is only known from Chinese food market specimens to date, and from limited captive breeding by only three pairs held by two groups of private breeders in Germany, the Allwetterzoo Münster, and in the United States. It may be found in the forests of southeastern Yunnan or western Guangxi, although it has never been recorded in the wild.[2]

Female
Plastron

References

  1. ↑ Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 219–220. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. ↑ https://www.iucn.org/content/searching-elusive-zhous-box-turtle
  • Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Cuora zhoui". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T5963A97360787. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T5963A11972677.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR A1d+2d)
  • Lee, D.S., and Levine, L.M. 2004. First captive breeding of Zhou's Box Turtle, Cuora zhoui, in North America. http://www.asianturtle.org/htm/species_Cuora_zhoui.html
  • Struijk, R.P.J.H., and Woldring, L.A. Cuora Studbooks, an overview. http://www.studbooks.eu/speciespages/Cuora_studbooks_an_overview.pdf
  • CITES Proposal 11.36 – status and biological information on Cuora species. http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/11/prop/36.pdf


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