Pan's box turtle

Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). The yellow-headed box turtle is sometimes included herein as a subspecies (Cuora pani aurocapitata).

Pan's box turtle
Pan's box turtle, Cuora pani pani
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Cuora
Species:
C. pani
Binomial name
Cuora pani
Song, 1984
Synonyms[3]
  • Cuora pani
    Song, 1984
  • Cuora chriskarannarum
    Ernst & McCord, 1987
  • Cuora chriskarannorum [sic]
    Obst & Reimann, 1994 (ex errore)
  • Cuora pani pani
    — Artner, 2003
  • Pyxiclemmys pani pani
    — Vetter, 2006


The Pan's box turtle is a highly endangered species on the verge of extinction. Each catch of the Pan's Box turtle rewards upwards of $10,000 per trade (Turtle Conservancy, 2017).

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Etymology

The specific name, pani, is probably in honor of Chinese herpetologist Pan Lei.[4]

The common name, Pan's box turtle, refers to its ability to seal itself within its shell.[5]

Geographic range

Cuora pani pani, the nominotypical subspecies, is endemic to the central Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hubei (Blanck & Tang, 2005).[1]

References
  1. Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2016) [errata version of 2000 assessment]. "Cuora pani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T5956A97359782. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T5956A11949874.en. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 218. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  4. 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. (Cuora pani, p. 200).
  5. "Pan's box turtle videos, photos and facts - Cuora pani ". Arkive. Archived from the original on 2010-11-15. Retrieved 2018-10-07.

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Further reading
  • Blanck T, Tang M (2005). "Ein neuer Fundort von Cuora pani SONG, 1984 mit Diskussion über den taxonomischen Status von Cuora pani und Cuora aurocapitata". SACALIA 7 (3), 2005: 16-37.
  • Song, Ming-tao (1984). "A new species of the turtle genus Cuora (Testudoformes: Testudinidae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 9 (3): 330-332. (Cuora pani, new species). (in Chinese, with summary in English).
  1. "Turtle Conservancy — First Hatching of Second Generation Pan's Box Turtles in the United States". Turtle Conservancy. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
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