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Cuora aurocapitata Luo & Zong, 1988

Yellow-headed box turtle

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct in the wild?

 

Distribution

China

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. (2000). Cuora aurocapitata (errata version published in 2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T5959A97350211. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T5959A11956075.en. Downloaded on 18 February 2020.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Ginal, Philipp et al. (2023). Threatened turtles and tortoises (Testudines) in zoos: A ZIMS database analysis for improved One Plan Approach to Conservation actions. Salamandra 59(3): 262-274.

Hilton-Taylor, C. (2000). 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. (2000). Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.

 

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