Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle

Eastern 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. pulchristiata
Binomial name
Cyclemys pulchristiata Iverson & McCold, 1997
Cyclemys pulchristiata range map.
Synonyms
Cyclemys atripons pulchristiata Vetter in Vetter & Van Dijk, 2006[1]

Cyclemys pulchristiata, commonly known as the Eastern 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 wide radiating black lines or large black specks. Plastron is mostly yellow and may have short fat lines, specks, or be uniformly colored. The head is speckled with a yellow throat. The neck is striped. Hatchlings have wide head and neck stripes and a yellow plastron. The bridge is predominantly yellow with black stripes or entirely black. It is mostly morphologically indistinguishable from the Western black-bridged leaf turtle, C. atripons, requiring genetic sampling to confidently identify.^[3][4] Some authorities consider this species to be a junior synonym to or a subspecies of C. atripons.^[1][3]

Distribution

Found in Cambodia and Vietnam.^[3][4]

See also

• Cyclemys

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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. ^ ^{a b c} 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. ^ ^{a b} Durkin, Louise; Handschuh, Markus; Sovannak, Keo; Ward, Lizzy; Hulse, Nikki; Mould, Alistair (2010). "Discovery of a hitherto unknown breeding population of the Asian leaf turtle Cyclemys aff. atripons in Phnom Kulen National Park, northwestern Cambodia". Cambodian Journal of Natural History (Centre for Biodiversity Conservation, Phnom Penh) (1). http://www.accb-cambodia.org/en/Discovery%20of%20Cyclemys%20in%20PKNP_ACCB%20-%20Durkin%20et%20al.pdf. 

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