Western black-bridged leaf turtle

Western black-bridged leaf turtle
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Cyclemys
Species:	C. atripons
Binomial name
Cyclemys atripons Iverson & McCold, 1997
Cyclemys atripons range map.
Synonyms
Cyclemys atripons atripons Vetter in Vetter & Van Dijk, 2006[1]

Cyclemys atripons, commonly known as the Western black-bridged leaf turtle, is a species of Asian leaf turtle found in Southern Indochina.^[2]

Description

Carapace is reddish brown, ovoid to elongated, with or without fine radiating black patterns. Plastron is mostly yellow with or without fine radiating black lines. The head is speckled and the throat yellow. The neck is striped. Hatchlings have wide head and neck stripes and a yellow plastron with large dark spots. The common name of the species refers to the color of the bridge (the area where the plastron and the carapace meet) which is predominantly yellow with black stripes or entirely black. C. atripons is morphologically almost indistinguishable from C. pulchristiata, the Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle.^[3]

Distribution

Found in Cambodia, Southeast Thailand, and Vietnam (Annam).^[4]

See also

• Cyclemys

References

1. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007), Checklist of Chelonians of the World, At the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation and funded by the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the German Federal Ministry of Environment, ISSN 186405755, http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf, retrieved March 27, 2011 
2. ^ Turtle taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., van Dijk, P.P, Iverson, J.B., and Shaffer, H.B.).2010. Turtles of the world, 2010 update: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5. pp. 000.85-000.164, doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v3.2010
3. ^ Fritz, U., Guicking, D., Auer, M., Sommer, R. S., Wink, M. and Hundsdörfer, A. K. (2008), Diversity of the Southeast Asian leaf turtle genus Cyclemys: how many leaves on its tree of life?. Zoologica Scripta, 37: 367–390. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00332.x
4. ^ Uetz, Peter; Hallermann, Jakob; Hosek, Jiri. "Cyclemys atripons Iverson & McCord, 1997". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Cyclemys&species=atripons. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 

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