Cuora (pani) aurocapitata

Taxobox
name = Yellow-headed Box Turtle


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Golden-headed Box Turtle
"Cuora (pani) aurocapitata"
status = CR
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
superfamilia = Testudinoidea
familia = Geoemydidae
subfamilia = Geoemydinae
genus = "Cuora"
species = "C. (pani)aurocapitata"
binomial = "Cuora aurocapitata"
binomial_authority = Luo & Zong, 1988 synonyms = See text.

The Yellow-headed Box Turtle or Golden-headed Box Turtle ("Cuora aurocapitata") is a proposed species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). It is sometimes considered a subspecies "Cuora pani aurocapitata" of Pan's Box Turtle.

This turtle is endemic to the central chinese Anhui Province (Blanck & Tang, 2005, Blanck & Kremser 2007).

References

*|year=2000|id=5959|title=Cuora aurocapitata|downloaded=29 July 2007 Listed as Critically Endangered (CR A1d+2d)

Blanck, T. & M. Tang (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

Blanck, T. & T. Kremser (2007): Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung von Cuora pani aurocapitata sowie neue Fundortnachweise. Teil I. Marginata 13 (4), 2007: 52-56

Blanck, T. & T. Kremser (2007): Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung von Cuora pani aurocapitata sowie neue Fundortnachweise. Teil II. Marginata 14 (4), 2007: 50-52

LUO, B. & Y. ZONG. 1988. A new species of Cuora - Cuora aurocapitata. - Acta Herpetologica Sinica, Beijing, 3: 13-16 (in Chinese).