Beal's eyed turtle

Beale's eyed turtle
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Sacalia
Species:	S. bealei
Binomial name
	Sacalia bealei; (Gray, 1831)
Synonyms [1]
	Cistuda bealei; Gray, 1831; Emys bealii [sic] ; Gray, 1834(ex errore); Emys (Pyxidemys) bealei; — Fitzinger, 1835; Clemmys bealii; — Strauch, 1862; Sacalia bealii; — Gray, 1870; Cistudo bealii; — Siebenrock, 1909; Clemmys [bealii] bealii; — Siebenrock, 1909; Chemmys [sic] beali; T. Vogt, 1922(ex errore); Clemmys bealei; — Lindholm, 1929; Cistudo bealei; — M.A. Smith, 1931; Sacalia bealei; — McDowell, 1964; Mauremys bealei; — Wermuth & Mertens, 1977; Sacalia beali; — Ewert in Harless & Morlock, 1979; Sacalia bealei bealei; — C. Ernst & R. Barbour, 1989; Clemmys beadei [sic] ; Yeh, 1994(ex errore);

Last updated December 23, 2019

Beale's eyed turtle (Sacalia bealei) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae).

Common names

It is sometimes called Beale's four-eyed turtle, though that is not an ideal common name due to the possibility of confusion with the four-eyed turtle proper (Sacalia quadriocellata).

Etymology

The specific name, bealei, is in honor of Thomas Beale, a Scottish naturalist and merchant in China.^[2]

Geographic range

Sacalia bealei is found in China .

Conservation status

Listed as Endangered by the IUCN,^[3] these turtles are hunted for use in folk medicine.^[4]

Footnotes

↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 247. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
↑ 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. (Sacalia bealei, p. 20).
↑ ATTWG (2000)
↑ da Nóbrega Alves et al. (2008)

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References

Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (ATTWG). (2000). "Sacalia bealei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . IUCN. 2000: e.T19796A97377507. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T19796A9016239.en .{{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help) Listed as Endangered (EN A1d+2d).
Boulenger, George Albert. (1889). Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). New Edition. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). x + 311 pp. + Plates I- VI. ("Clemmys bealii [sic]", p. 107).
da Nóbrega Alves, Rômulo Romeu; da Silva Vieira, Washington Luiz; Gomes Santana, Gindomar. (2008): "Reptiles used in traditional folk medicine: conservation implications". Biodiversity and Conservation17 (8): 2037–2049. doi : 10.1007/s10531-007-9305-0 (HTML abstract, PDF first page)
Gray, John Edward. (1831). Synopsis Reptilium; or Short Descriptions of the Species of Reptiles. Part I.—Cataphracta. Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Enaliosaurians. London: Treuttel, Wurtz, and Co. viii + 85 pp. ("Cistuda Bealei ", p. 71).

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[Fritz_2007-1] Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 247. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

[2] 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. (Sacalia bealei, p. 20).

[3] ATTWG (2000)

[4] Nóbrega Alves et al. (2008)

Beale's eyed turtle
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Sacalia
Species:	S. bealei
Binomial name
*Sacalia bealei* (Gray, 1831)
Synonyms ^[1]
Cistuda bealei Gray, 1831 Emys bealii [sic] Gray, 1834(ex errore) Emys (Pyxidemys) bealei — Fitzinger, 1835 Clemmys bealii — Strauch, 1862 Sacalia bealii — Gray, 1870 Cistudo bealii — Siebenrock, 1909 Clemmys [bealii] bealii — Siebenrock, 1909 Chemmys [sic] beali T. Vogt, 1922(ex errore) Clemmys bealei — Lindholm, 1929 Cistudo bealei — M.A. Smith, 1931 Sacalia bealei — McDowell, 1964 Mauremys bealei — Wermuth & Mertens, 1977 Sacalia beali — Ewert in Harless & Morlock, 1979 Sacalia bealei bealei — C. Ernst & R. Barbour, 1989 Clemmys beadei [sic] Yeh, 1994(ex errore)