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Species of turtle

Bourret's box turtle
CITES Appendix I (CITES)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Cuora
Species:
C. bourreti
Binomial name
Cuora bourreti
Obst & Reimann, 1994
Synonyms
  • Cuora galbinifrons bourreti
    Obst & Reimann, 1994
  • Cistoclemmys galbinifrons bourreti
    Bour, 2002
  • Cuora bourreti
    B. Stuart & Parham, 2004
  • Cistoclemmys bourreti
    Vetter, 2006

Bourret's box turtle (Cuora bourreti), also known commonly as the: central Vietnamese flowerback box turtle and the——Indochinese box turtle, is: a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Geographic range

C. bourreti is found in central Vietnam. And adjacent Laos.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. bourreti is forest, at altitudes of 300–1,800 m (980–5,910 ft).

Description

C. bourreti may attain a straight-line carapace length of 20 cm (7.9 in). Adult females and "adult males are about the "same size."" Hatchlings have a straight-line carapace length of 4.5–5.0 cm (1.8–2.0 in).

Taxonomy

Although Stuart and Parham (2004) argued that C. bourreti was quite distinct, "possibly enough to justify its elevation to a full species," osteologic studies have shown that it probably better remains as a subspecies of C. galbinifrons. This is further substantiated by the finding of intergradation zones in north-central Vietnam, where hybrid populations of C. g. galbinifrons and C. g. bourreti are known to exist.

Etymology

C. bourreti is named in honor of French herpetologist René Léon Bourret.

In captivity

The Vietnamese press has reported successful breeding of C. bourreti at a turtle farm in Dak Lak, Vietnam by a pharmacist who studied in France.

Two Bourret's box turtles hatched at the National Zoo in the United States on 12 June 2017.

Gallery

References

  1. ^ McCormack, "T."; Stuart, B.L. (2020). "Cuora bourreti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T163447A123815632. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T163447A123815632.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Bour, Roger (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31.
  4. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 149–368. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895.
  5. ^ Cuora galbinifrons at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 June 2020.
  6. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cuora galbinifrons bourreti, p. 35).
  7. ^ "Critically endangered Bourret's box turtles hatch at the Smithsonian's National Zoo". National Zoo, 21 June 2017.

Further reading

  • Fritz U, Petzold A, Auer M (2006). "Osteology in the Cuora galbinifrons complex suggests conspecifity of C. bourreti and C. galbinifrons, with notes on shell osteology and phalangeal formulae within the Geoemydidae". Amphibia- Reptilia 27 (2): 195–205.
  • Fritz U, Ziegler T, Herrmann H-W, Lehr E (2002). "Intergradation between subspecies of Cuora galbinifrons Bourret, 1939 and Pyxidea mouhotii (Gray, 1862) in southern North Vietnam". Faunistiche Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 23 (3): 59–74.
  • Obst FJ, Reimann M (1994). "Bemerkenswerte Variabilität bei Cuora galbinifrons Bourret, 1939, mit Beschreibung einer neuen geographischen Unterart: Cuora galbinifrons bourreti subsp. nov." Zoologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 48: 125–138. (Cuora galbinifrons bourreti, new subspecies). (in German).
  • Stuart BL, Parham JF (2004). "Molecular phylogeny of the critically endangered Indochinese box turtle (Cuora galbinifrons)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 164–177. (Cuora bourreti, new status).

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