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Cuora (Asian box turtle)
Taxonomy
Cuora was named by Gray (1855). It is extant.
It was assigned to Batagurinae by Ernst and Barbour (1989); to Emydidae by Carroll (1988) and Frank and Ramus (1996); to Geoemydidae by Claude et al. (2012); and to Geoemydinae by van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Batagurinae by Ernst and Barbour (1989); to Emydidae by Carroll (1988) and Frank and Ramus (1996); to Geoemydidae by Claude et al. (2012); and to Geoemydinae by van Dijk et al. (2014).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1855 | Cuora Gray |
| 1988 | Cuora Carroll |
| 1989 | Cuora Ernst and Barbour |
| 1996 | Cuora Frank and Ramus |
| 2012 | Cuora Claude et al. |
| 2014 | Cuora van Dijk et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Cuora Gray 1855 [Asian box turtle]
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Cuora amboinensis Riche 1801 [Southeast Asian box turtle]
Cuora aurocapitata Luo and Zong 1988 [Yellow-headed box turtle]
Cuora bourreti Obst and Reimann 1994 [Bourrets box turtle]
Cuora flavomarginata Gray 1863 [Yellow-margined box turtle]
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Invalid names: Terrapene culturalia Yeh 1961 [synonym]
Cuora galbinifrons Bourret 1939 [Indochinese box turtle]
Cuora mccordi Ernst 1988 [McCord's box turtle]
Cuora mouhotii Gray 1862 [Keeled box turtle]
Cuora pani Song 1984 [Pan's box turtle]
Cuora picturata Lehr et al. 1998 [Southern Vietnam box turtle]
†Cuora pitheca Yeh 1981
Cuora trifasciata Bell 1825 [Chinese three-striped box turtle]
†Cuora tungia Yeh 1963
Cuora yunnanensis Boulenger 1906 [Yunnan box turtle]
Cuora zhoui Zhao 1990 [Zhou's box turtle]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Tortonian to the top of the Holocene or 11.62000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 7.246 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 7.246 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tortonian | China (Yunnan) | Cuora pitheca (11798) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Testudo tingia (38649) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Indonesia (Tulungagung) | Cuora amboinensis (216923) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Japan (Okinawa) | Cuora sp. (192971) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Zhejiang) | Cuora flavomarginata (226910) | |
| Holocene | China (Shandong) | Terrapene culturalia (154960) | |
| Holocene | China (Zhejiang) | Cuora flavomarginata (226911) | |
| Holocene | Thailand (Lopburi) | Cuora amboinensis (201933 201936) | |
| Holocene | Thailand (Suphan Buri) | Cuora amboinensis (201928) | |
| Holocene | Thailand (Singburi) | Cuora amboinensis (201942) |