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(Redirected from Leucocephalon yuwonoi) Species of turtle

Sulawesi forest turtle
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Subfamily: Geoemydinae
Genus: Leucocephalon
McCord, Iverson, Spinks & Shaffer, 2000
Species: L. yuwonoi
Binomial name
Leucocephalon yuwonoi
(McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995)
Synonyms
  • Geoemyda yuwonoi
    McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995
  • Heosemys yuwonoi
    Fritz & Obst, 1996
  • Leucocephalon yuwonoi
    — McCord, Iverson, Spinks & Shaffer, 2000
  • Notochelys yuwonoi
    Artner, 2008
  • Leucocephalon yuwonoi
    TTWG, 2014

The Sulawesi forest turtle (Leucocephalon yuwonoi) is a critically endangered species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is monotypic within the genus Leucocephalon. It is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Etymology

The specific name, yuwonoi, is in honor of Indonesian herpetologist Frank Bambang Yuwono (born 1958).

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. yuwonoi are freshwater swamps and rivers.

Conservation

As of 2016 The Riverview Zoo in Peterborough, Ontario, had managed to hatch two Sulawesi forest turtles.

See also

  • Forsten's tortoise (Indotestudo forstenii) – another threatened turtle endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia.

References

  1. ^ Stanford, C.B.; Hamidy, A. (2021). "Leucocephalon yuwonoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T40761A2933851. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T40761A2933851.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 226–227. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
  4. ^ Species Leucocephalon yuwonoi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  5. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leucocephalon yuwonoi, p. 292).
  6. "A Sulawesi Forest Turtle Hatched at Riverview Park & Zoo". 14 November 2016.

Further reading

  • Artner H (2008). "The world's extant turtle species, Part 1". Emys 15 (3): 4–32. (Notochelys yuwonoi, new combination, p. 10).
  • Fritz U, Obst FJ (1996). "Zur Kenntnis der Celebes-Erdschildkröte, Heosemys yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995)". Herpetofauna 18 (102): 27–34. (Heosemys yuwonoi, new combination). (in German).
  • McCord WP, Iverson JB, Boeadi (1995). "A New Batagurid Turtle from Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia". Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1 (4): 311–316. (Geoemyda yuwonoi, new species).
  • McCord WP, Iverson JB, Spinks, Shaffer HB (2000). "A new genus of geoemydid turtle from Asia". Hamadryad 25 (2): 20–24. (Leucocephalon, new genus; L. yuwonoi, new combination).


Family Geoemydidae
Genera
Species of the family Geoemydidae
Northern river terrapin(Batagur baska)
Banhxeochelys
Batagur
Cuora
Cyclemys
Echmatemys
Geoclemys
Geoemyda
Hardella
Heosemys
Leucocephalon
Malayemys
Mauremys
Melanochelys
Morenia
Notochelys
Orlitia
Pangshura
Rhinoclemmys
Sacalia
Siebenrockiella
Vijayachelys
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. †=Extinct.
Testudines
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
Taxon identifiers
Leucocephalon yuwonoi


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