Sulawesi forest turtle

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Sulawesi forest turtle
CITES Appendix II (CITES) [2]
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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 [3] [4]
  • Geoemyda yuwonoi
    McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995
  • Heosemys yuwonoi
    Fritz & Obst, 1996
  • Leucocephalon yuwonoi
    — McCord, Iverson, Spinks & Shaffer, 2000
  • Notochelys yuwonoi
    Artner, 2008
  • Leucocephalon yuwonoi
    TTWG, 2014

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. [3] It is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Etymology

The specific name, yuwonoi, is in honor of Indonesian herpetologist Frank Bambang Yuwono (born 1958). [5]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. yuwonoi are freshwater swamps and rivers. [1] [4]

Conservation

As of 2016 The Riverview Zoo in Peterborough, Ontario, had managed to hatch two Sulawesi forest turtles. [6]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. 1 2 Species Leucocephalon yuwonoi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  5. 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).
  6. "A Sulawesi Forest Turtle Hatched at Riverview Park & Zoo". 14 November 2016.

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