Chinese false-eyed turtle
Chinese false-eyed turtle | |
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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.
References
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Sacalia pseudocellata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2006. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 July 2007.
- Buskirk, James R.; Parham, James F. & Feldman, Chris R. (2005): On the hybridisation between two distantly related Asian turtles (Testudines: Sacalia × Mauremys). Salamandra 41: 21-26. PDF fulltext
- Parham, James Ford; Simison, W. Brian; Kozak, Kenneth H.; Feldman, Chris R. & Shi, Haitao (2001): New Chinese turtles: endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens. Animal Conservation 4(4): 357–367. HTML abstract Erratum: Animal Conservation 5(1): 86 HTML abstract
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