Beal's eyed turtle

Beal's eyed turtle
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Subfamily: Geoemydinae
Genus: Sacalia
Species: S. bealei
Binomial name
Sacalia bealei
(Gray, 1831)

Beal's eyed turtle (Sacalia bealei) is sometimes called Beal's four-eyed turtle, though that is not an ideal name due to possibility of confusion with the Four-eyed Turtle proper (S quadriocellata). It is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae).

It is found in China and Hong Kong. Listed as Endangered by the IUCN,[1] these turtles are hunted for use in folk medicine.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ ATTWG (2000)
  2. ^ da Nóbrega Alves et al. (2008)

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