Chinese false-eyed turtle

Chinese false-eyed turtle
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Subfamily: Geoemydinae
Genus: "Sacalia"
Species: "S." pseudocellata
Binomial name
"Sacalia" × pseudocellata
McCord & Iverson, 1992

The Chinese false-eyed turtle (Sacalia pseudocellata), believed to be from Hainan, was a proposed species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). Known only from the pet trade type specimens, it recently proved to be a hybrid (Stuart & Parham, 2006) between a male golden coin turtle (Cuora trifasciata) and a female Sacalia quadriocellata.

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