Beale's eyed turtle

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

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)

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).

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

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. da Nóbrega Alves et al. (2008)

References

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (ATTWG). (2000). "Sacalia bealei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 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 Conservation 17 (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).