EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Sacalia bealei


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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Sacalia (Eyed Turtles)
species..............Sacalia bealei (Beal's Eyed turtle)
Original Description
Gray 1831b : 71
Syntypes
(2 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.4.33; BMNH 1947.3.4.42
Type Locality
"China"
Original name
Cistuda bealei
Common Name
Beal's Eyed turtle
Distribution
Hong Kong and southeastern China (PRC), from Fujian to Guangdong Provinces; possibly also in Anhui Prov. and on Hainan Island
Comments
Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Clemmys bealei), Pope (1935; as Clemmys bealei), and Rödel and Praedicow (1988). Sachsse (1975), Rödel (1985), and Rödel and Praedicow (1988) suggested that Sacalia quadriocellata (Siebenrock, 1903a:336) was based on female S. bealei, and thus is synonymous with the latter. However, Fu and Zhao (1990) and Iverson and McCord (1992) argued that they are distinct species.
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