| Ocadia | |
|---|---|
| Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle Ocadia sinensis |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Geoemydidae |
| Subfamily: | Batagurinae |
| Genus: | Ocadia Gray, 1870 |
Ocadia is a genus of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly called Bataguridae). It is sometimes included in Mauremys.[1] It contains the following species:
O. sinensis is known to hybridize with most other Geoemydidae.[2] Hybridization runs rampant in that family; while it is possible that perfectly valid species could arise this way, the other Ocadia are apparently only known from a few specimens each, all of them purchased from a turtle dealer in Hong Kong:
The supposed species "Ocadia glyphistoma", described by Mccord & Iverson in 1994 and supposedly from southern Guangxi and northern Vietnam, is a hybrid between a male O. sinensis and a female Vietnamese Pond Turtle (Mauremys annamensis).[3] This "species" seems to be naturally occurring in Central Vietnam, but is occasionally also bred for the pet trade in southern Chinese turtle farms.[4]
Philippen's Striped Turtle ("Ocadia philippeni"), described by Mccord & Iverson in 1992 and said to occur on Hainan, also proved to be a hybrid, between a male O. sinensis and a female Cuora trifasciata.[5] It is not proven but likely that this "species" also originates from both the wild and is bred in farms.