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Cuora flavomarginata (Yellow-margined Box Turtle)

Synonyms: Cistoclemmys flavomarginata; Cuora amboinensis (heterotypic); Cuora evelynae; Cyclemys flavomarginata; Cyclemys flavomarginata sinensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinese box turtle (simplified Chinese: 食蛇龟; traditional Chinese: 食蛇龜; pinyin: shìshéguī; literally: "Snake-eating turtle"), also known as the Yellow-margined box turtle, or Golden-headed turtle, is a species of Asian box turtle. Taxonomically, it has been called Cistoclemmys flavomarginata, Cuora flavomarginata, and Cyclemys flavomarginata. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System uses Cuora flavomarginata.
View Wikipedia Record: Cuora flavomarginata

Infraspecies

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Cuora flavomarginata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.10 lbs (499 g)
Female Weight [1]  1.10 lbs (499 g)
Gestation [1]  3 months 3 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kenting National Park II 78882 Taiwan
Tianmushan Biosphere Reserve 47993 China  
Yancheng Nature Reserve V 711488 China    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Japan Japan No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Turtles and Tortoises Demographic Traits Database for CITES Listed Species ver. 01, Species360 (2018)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0