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Cuora pani

(Pan's Box Turtle)

Overview

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Critically Endangered

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Pan's Box Turtle, Yellow-Headed Box Turtle (Aurocapitata)

Common Names in German:

Goldk, Pans Scharnierschildkr, Pans Scharnierschildkrote

Description

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Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater [1].

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Cistoclemmys galbinifrons galbinifrons Obst 2003: 17 • Cistoclemmys hainanensis King & Burke 1989 • Cuora chriskarannarumCuora chriskarannarum Ernst & Mccord 1987 • Cuora galbinifrons galbinifrons Becker 1999 • Cuora galbinifrons serrata Iverson & Mccord 1992 • Cuora pani — Obst 2003: 17 • Cyclemys flavomarginata hainanensis Li 1958 • Cyclemys hainanensis Hu Djao & Huang 1975

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Holotype: USNM 266162 [Cuora chriskarannarum] Holotype: SIZ 80170 [Cuora pani] Cuora chriskarannarum has been synonymized with Cuora pani by McCord & Iverson (1991). Little or no mitochondrial DNA variation was found among the morphologically distinct species Cuora aurocapitata, Cuora pani, and Cuora trifasciata (STUART & PARHAM 2004). According to SCHILDE (2004) the type locality of this species is not known. C. trifasciata and C. pani are paraphyletic (SPINKS et al. 2007).

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Cuora

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. amboinensis (South Asian Box Turtle) · C. amboinensis amboinensis (Amboina Box Turtle; Southeast Asian Box Turtle) · C. aurocapitata (Yellow-Headed Box Turtle) · C. flavomarginata (Yellow-Margined Box Turtle) · C. flavomarginata flavomarginata (Yellow-Margined Box Turtle) · C. galbinifrons (Indochinese Box Turtle) · C. mccordi (McCord's Box Turtle) · C. mouhotii (Jagged-Shelled Turtle) · C. pani (Pan's Box Turtle) · C. mouhotii (Keeled Box Turtle) · C. trifasciata (Chinese Three-Striped Box Turtle) · C. yunnanensis (Yunnan Box Turtle) · C. zhoui (Zhou's Box Turtle)

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Further Reading

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Footnotes

  1. Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Cuora pani. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/14/2012