Pan's box turtle

Pan's box turtle
Pan's box turtle Cuora pani pani
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Cuora
Species:	C. pani
Binomial name
Cuora pani Song, 1984
Synonyms[1]
Cuora pani Song, 1984 Cuora chriskarannarum Ernst & McCord, 1987 Cuora chriskarannorum Obst & Reimann, 1994 (ex errore) Cuora pani pani Artner, 2003 Pyxiclemmys pani pani Vetter, 2006

Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). The yellow-headed box turtle is sometimes included herein as a subspecies Cuora pani aurocapitata

Plastron

Cuora pani pani is endemic to China found only in the central Chinese province Shaanxi, Sichuan and Hubei (Blanck & Tang, 2005).

References

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Cuora pani. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 29 July 2007. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR A1d+2d)

Blanck, T. & M. Tang (2005): Ein neuer Fundort von Cuora pani SONG, 1984 mit Diskussion über den taxonomischen Status von Cuora pani und Cuora aurocapitata. SACALIA 7 (3), 2005: 16-37

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