EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Cuora mccordi
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Cuora (Asian Box Turtles)
species..............Cuora mccordi (McCord's Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Ernst 1988b : 446
- Holotype
- USNM 281850
- Type Locality
- "highland near Paise, Guangxi Province, China (23° 54'N, 106° 37'E)" [PRC]; although apparently collected in nearby Yunnan Province according to McCord and Iverson (1991:412)
- Original name
- Cuora mccordi
- Common Name
- McCord's Box Turtle
- Distribution
- Known only from the region of the type locality
- Comments
- Reviewed by McCord and Iverson (1991).
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