Oldham's leaf turtle

Oldham's leaf turtle
Cyclemys oldhamii carapace and plastron.
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Subfamily: Geoemydinae
Genus: Cyclemys
Species: C. oldhamii
Binomial name
Cyclemys oldhamii
Gray, 1863
Cyclemys oldhamii range map
Synonyms[1]
  • Cyclemys oldhamii Gray, 1863
  • Cyclemys oldhami Günther, 1864 (ex errore)

Oldham's leaf turtle (Cyclemys oldhamii) , is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.

It is found in Bangladesh, in the terai of India, in Myanmar, Thailand, W Borneo, Sumatra and Java. In addition, Cyclemys oldhami shanensis - sometimes considered a distinct species due to its shell pattern, oft described as looking similar to aged meat - occurs from central Myanmar to Thailand and Cambodia. The type locality was originally given as "Mergui and Siam", and restricted to Mergui by Smith (1931).

A case of hybridization between a male Cyclemys (oldhamii) shanensis and a female Chinese stripe-necked turtle has been described.[2]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 220–221. ISSN 18640-5755. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. Parham et al. (2001), Buskirk et al. (2005)

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