Sulawesi forest turtle | |
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Conservation status | |
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
CITES Appendix II (CITES) | |
Scientific 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 | |
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
- ^ 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.
- "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Species Leucocephalon yuwonoi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- 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).
- "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 | ||||
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†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. |
Taxon identifiers | |
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Leucocephalon yuwonoi |
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