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Yucatán box turtle
Conservation status
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Terrapene
Species: T. yucatana
Binomial name
Terrapene yucatana
(Boulenger, 1895)
Synonyms
  • Cistudo yucatana Boulenger, 1895
  • Terrapene yucatana
    Siebenrock, 1909
  • Terrapene mexicana yucatana
    H.M. Smith, 1939
  • Terrapene carolina yucatana
    – Milstead, 1967
  • Terapene mexicana jucatana Nietzke, 1973 (ex errore)

The Yucatán box turtle (Terrapene yucatana) is a species of box turtle endemic to Mexico. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Terrapene carolina.

Geographic range

It is found in the Mexican state of Yucatán.

Description

Its shell is light-colored with some star-shaped dark spots. Its head is also light-colored. It has four toes on each foot.

References

  1. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  2. Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the world, 2010 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5: 000.107. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v3.2010. ISBN 978-0-9653540-9-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-07-17.
  3. Fritz, Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 199–200. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895.
Emydidae family
Genera
Species of the Emydidae family
Northern red-bellied cooter(Pseudemys rubriventris)
Chrysemys
Clemmys
Deirochelys
Actinemys
Emys
Emydoidea
Glyptemys
Graptemys
Malaclemys
Pseudemys
Terrapene
Trachemys
Wilburemys
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. Key: †=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
Terrapene carolina yucatana
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