Cuora pani

Taxobox
name = Pan's Box Turtle


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image_caption = Pan's box turtle
"Cuora pani pani"
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"
binomial = "Cuora pani"
binomial_authority = Song, 1984
synonyms = "Cuora chriskarannarum" (Ernst & Mccord, 1987)

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

"Cuora pani pani" is endemic to China found only in the central chinese province Shaanxi, Sichuan and Hubei (Blanck & Tang, 2005).

References

*|year=2000|id=5956|title=Cuora pani|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