Philippen's Striped Turtle
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| Ocadia philippeni (McCord & Iverson, 1992) |
Philippen's Striped Turtle (Ocadia philippeni) has recently shown to be an intergeneric hybrid (Stuart & Parham, 2006) between a male Ocadia sinensis and a female Cuora trifasciata.
Known only from a handfull of specimens (mainly the type series), said to originat from Hainan but all acquired from a pet trader in Hong Kong.
[edit] References
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Ocadia philippeni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 29 July 2007.
- Parham, James Ford; Simison, W. Brian; Kozak, Kenneth H.; Feldman, Chris R. & Shi, Haitao (2001): New Chinese turtles: endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens. Animal Conservation 4(4): 357–367. HTML abstract Erratum: Animal Conservation 5(1): 86 HTML abstract
