EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Cuora yunnanensis
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Cuora (Asian Box Turtles)
species..............Cuora yunnanensis (Yunnan Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Boulenger 1906 : 567
- Syntypes
- (6 specimens) BMNH 1946.1.22.97; BMNH 1946.1.22.98; BMNH 1946.1.22.99; BMNH 1946.1.23.1; BMNH 1946.1.23.2; BMNH 1946.1.23.3
- Type Locality
- "Yunnan fu" [= Kunming] and "Tongchuan fu [= Dongchuan]" [Yunnan, China (PRC)]
- Original name
- Cyclemys yunnanensis
- Common Name
- Yunnan Box Turtle
- Distribution
- Known only from the type locality
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931), Pope (1935; as Cyclemys yunnanensis), Ernst (1988a), and McCord and Iverson (1991).
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