Bourret's box turtle

Bourret's box turtle (Cuora bourreti ),[2] also known commonly as the central Vietnamese flowerback box turtle and the Indochinese box turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Bourret's box turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Cuora
Species:
C. bourreti
Binomial name
Cuora bourreti
Obst & Reimann, 1994[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Cuora galbinifrons bourreti
    Obst & Reimann, 1994
  • Cistoclemmys galbinifrons bourreti
    — Bour, 2002
  • Cuora bourreti
    — Stuart & Parham, 2004
  • Cistoclemmys bourreti
    — Vetter, 2006

Geographic range

C. bourreti is found in central Vietnam and adjacent Laos.[1][4]

Taxonomy

Although Stuart and Parham (2004) argued that C. bourreti was quite distinct, possibly enough to justify its elevation to a full species, osteologic studies[3] have shown that it probably better remains as a subspecies of C. galbinifrons. This is further substantiated by the finding of intergradation zones in north-central Vietnam, where hybrid populations of C. g. galbinifrons and C. g. bourreti are known to exist.[3]

Etymology

C. bourreti is named in honor of French herpetologist René Léon Bourret.[5]

In captivity

The Vietnamese press has reported successful breeding of C. bourreti at a turtle farm in Dak Lak, Vietnam by a pharmacist who studied in France.

Two Bourret's box turtles hatched at the National Zoo in the United States on 12 June 2017.[6]

References
  1. McCormack, T.; Stuart, B. (2016). "Cuora bourreti ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T163447A115303472. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Bour, Roger (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.
  3. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17.
  4. Cuora galbinifrons at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 June 2020.
  5. 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 galbinifrons bourreti, p. 35).
  6. "Critically endangered Bourret's box turtles hatch at the Smithsonian's National Zoo". National Zoo, 21 June 2017.


Further reading
  • Fritz, Uwe; Petzold, Antje; Auer, Markus (2006). "Osteology in the Cuora galbinifrons complex suggests conspecifity of C. bourreti and C. galbinifrons, with notes on shell osteology and phalangeal formulae within the Geoemydidae". Amphibia- Reptilia 27 (2): 195-205.
  • Fritz U, Ziegler T, Herrmann H-W, Lehr E (2002). "Intergradation between subspecies of Cuora galbinifrons Bourret, 1939 and Pyxidea mouhotii (Gray, 1862) in southern North Vietnam". Faun. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 23: 59-74.
  • Obst FJ, Reimann M (1994). "Bemerkenswerte Variabilität bei Cuora galbinifrons Bourret, 1939, mit Beschreibung einer neuen geographischen Unterart: Cuora galbinifrons bourreti subsp. nov." Zool. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 48: 125-138.
  • Stuart BL, Parham JF (2004). "Molecular phylogeny of the critically endangered Indochinese box turtle (Cuora galbinifrons)". Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 31: 164-177.
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