EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Cuora trifasciata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Cuora (Asian Box Turtles)
species..............Cuora trifasciata (Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Bell 1825 : 305
- Holotype
- Not located
- Type Locality
- Not stated
- Original name
- Sternothaerus trifasciatus
- Common Name
- Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle
- Distribution
- Northern Vietnam to Guangsi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan Dao provinces, China (PRC); possibly also in northern Burma (Myanmar)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931), Pope (1935; as Cyclemys trifasciata), and Bourret (1941).
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