Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). The yellow-headed box turtle is sometimes included herein as a subspecies (Cuora pani aurocapitata).
| Pan's box turtle | |
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| Pan's box turtle, Cuora pani pani | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Geoemydidae |
| Genus: | Cuora |
| Species: | C. pani
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| Binomial name | |
| Cuora pani Song, 1984
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The Pan's box turtle is a highly endangered species on the verge of extinction. Each catch of the Pan's box turtle rewards upwards of $10,000 per trade (Turtle Conservancy, 2017).
Etymology
editThe specific name, pani, is probably in honor of Chinese herpetologist Pan Lei.[4]
The common name, Pan's box turtle, refers to its ability to seal itself within its shell.[5]
Geographic range
editCuora pani pani, the nominotypical subspecies, is endemic to the central Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hubei (Blanck & Tang, 2005).[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2016) [errata version of 2000 assessment]. "Cuora pani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T5956A97359782. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T5956A11949874.en. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 218. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cuora pani, p. 200).
- ^ "Pan's box turtle videos, photos and facts - Cuora pani ". Arkive. Archived from the original on 2010-11-15. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
External links
edit- "Cuora pani (Pan's Box Turtle)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2018-10-07. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR A1d+2d).
- Species Cuora pani at The Reptile Database
Further reading
edit- Blanck T, Tang M (2005). "Ein neuer Fundort von Cuora pani SONG, 1984 mit Diskussion über den taxonomischen Status von Cuora pani und Cuora aurocapitata". SACALIA 7 (3), 2005: 16-37.
- Song, Ming-tao (1984). "A new species of the turtle genus Cuora (Testudoformes: Testudinidae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 9 (3): 330-332. (Cuora pani, new species). (in Chinese, with summary in English).
- ^ "Turtle Conservancy — First Hatching of Second Generation Pan's Box Turtles in the United States". Turtle Conservancy. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-27.