Chinese false-eyed turtle

Chinese false-eyed turtle
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Subfamily:	Geoemydinae
Genus:	"Sacalia"
Species:	"S." pseudocellata
Binomial name
"Sacalia" × pseudocellata McCord & Iverson, 1992

The Chinese false-eyed turtle (Sacalia pseudocellata), believed to be from Hainan, was a proposed species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). Known only from the pet trade type specimens, it recently proved to be a hybrid (Stuart & Parham, 2006) between a male golden coin turtle (Cuora trifasciata) and a female Sacalia quadriocellata.

References

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• Buskirk, James R.; Parham, James F. & Feldman, Chris R. (2005): On the hybridisation between two distantly related Asian turtles (Testudines: Sacalia × Mauremys). Salamandra 41: 21-26. PDF fulltext
• Parham, James Ford; Simison, W. Brian; Kozak, Kenneth H.; Feldman, Chris R. & Shi, Haitao (2001): New Chinese turtles: endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens. Animal Conservation 4(4): 357–367. HTML abstract Erratum: Animal Conservation 5(1): 86 HTML abstract