Zhou's box turtle

Zhou's box turtle
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Cuora
Species:	C. zhoui
Binomial name
	Cuora zhoui; Zhao, Zhou & Ye, 1990
Synonyms
	Cuora pallidicephala Mccord & Iverson, 1991 Cuora zhoui Zhao, 1990; Cuora pallidicephala McCord & Iverson, 1991; Pyxiclemmys zhoui Vetter, 2006;

Zhou's box turtle (Cuora zhoui) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). Apparently endemic to China, it is only known from Chinese food market specimens to date, and from limited captive breeding by only three pairs held by two groups of private breeders in Germany, the Allwetterzoo Münster, and in the United States. It may be found in the forests of southeastern Yunnan or western Guangxi, although it has never been recorded in the wild.^[2]

References

^ Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 219–220. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
^ https://www.iucn.org/content/searching-elusive-zhous-box-turtle

Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Cuora zhoui". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000. IUCN: e.T5963A97360787. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T5963A11972677.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR A1d+2d)
Lee, D.S., and Levine, L.M. 2004. First captive breeding of Zhou's Box Turtle, Cuora zhoui, in North America. http://www.asianturtle.org/htm/species_Cuora_zhoui.html
Struijk, R.P.J.H., and Woldring, L.A. Cuora Studbooks, an overview. http://www.studbooks.eu/speciespages/Cuora_studbooks_an_overview.pdf
CITES Proposal 11.36 – status and biological information on Cuora species. http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/11/prop/36.pdf

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[Fritz2007-1] Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 219–220. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

[2] ttps://www.iucn.org/content/searching-elusive-zhous-box-turtle

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