Black-breasted leaf turtle

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Black-breasted leaf turtle
Stavenn Geoemyda spengleri.jpg
Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN 2.3)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Geoemyda
Species:
G. spengleri
Binomial name
Geoemyda spengleri
(Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms[3]
  • Testudo spengleri
    Gmelin, 1789
  • Emys spengleri
    — Schweigger, 1812
  • Geoemyda spengleri
    — Gray, 1834
  • Clemmys (Clemmys) spengleri
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • Nicoria spengleri
    — Gray, 1856
  • Geomyda spengleri
    — , 1929
  • Geoemyda spengleri sinensis
    , 1931
  • Geoemyda spengleri spengleri
    — Pope, 1934

The black-breasted leaf turtle (Geoemyda spengleri), also commonly called the Vietnamese leaf turtle or the black-breasted hill turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly called Bataguridae). The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Geographic range[]

G. spengleri is found in the wild in China, Vietnam[1] and Laos.[4]

Etymology[]

The specific name, spengleri, is in honor of Danish naturalist Lorenz Spengler.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Geoemyda spengleri (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T39552A97362363. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39552A10247618.en. Downloaded on 01 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 222–223. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  4. ^ Stuart BL, Hallam CD, Sayavong S, Nanthavong C, Sayaleng S, Vongsa O, (2011). "Two Additions to the Turtle Fauna of Laos". Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 10: 113–116. doi:10.2744/CCB-0856.1. S2CID 84473825.
  5. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Geoemyda spengleri, p. 250).

Further reading[]

  • Wilke, Hartmut (1998). Tortoises and Box Turtles. New York: Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge Inc.

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