EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Cuora aurocapitata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Cuora (Asian Box Turtles)
species..............Cuora aurocapitata (Yellow-headed Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Luo and Zong 1988 : 13
- Holotype
- Shanghai Museum of Natural History 86/012
- Type Locality
- "Nanling County, Anhui" [Prov., China (PRC)]
- Original name
- Cuora aurocapitata
- Common Name
- Yellow-headed Box Turtle
- Distribution
- Known only from the type locality
- Comments
- Ernst (1988a) described his concept of Cuora pani, which actually represented C. aurocapitata. See McCord and Iverson (1991) for clarification.
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