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 the central Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan and Hubei (Blanck & Tang, 2005).

References

  1. Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 218. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

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