Zhou's box turtle
Zhou's box turtle | |
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Zhou's box turtle Cuora zhoui | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Sauropsida |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Geoemydidae |
Subfamily: | Geoemydinae |
Genus: | Cuora |
Species: | C. zhoui |
Binomial name | |
Cuora zhoui Zhao, Zhou & Ye, 1990 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Cuora pallidicephala Mccord & Iverson, 1991
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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 and in the United States.
References
- ↑ 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.
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Cuora zhoui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2006. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 July 2007. 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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