Black-breasted leaf turtle

The black-breasted leaf turtle (Geoemyda spengleri), also commonly called the Vietnamese leaf turtle or the black-breasted hill turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly called Bataguridae). The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Black-breasted leaf turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Geoemyda
Species:
G. spengleri
Binomial name
Geoemyda spengleri
(Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms[2]
  • Testudo spengleri
    Gmelin, 1789
  • Emys spengleri
    — Schweigger, 1812
  • Geoemyda spengleri
    — Gray, 1834
  • Clemmys (Clemmys) spengleri
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • Nicoria spengleri
    — Gray, 1856
  • Geomyda spengleri
    — Mell, 1929
  • Geoemyda spengleri sinensis
    Fan, 1931
  • Geoemyda spengleri spengleri
    — Pope, 1934

Geographic range

G. spengleri is found in the wild in China, Vietnam [1] and Laos.[3]

Etymology

The specific name, spengleri, is in honor of Danish naturalist Lorenz Spengler.[4]

Domestic pet

G. spengleri is sometimes kept as a pet.

References
  1. Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Geoemyda spengleri (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T39552A97362363. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39552A10247618.en. Downloaded on 01 June 2020.
  2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 222–223. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. Stuart BL, Hallam CD, Sayavong S, Nanthavong C, Sayaleng S, Vongsa O, Robichaud WG (2011). "Two Additions to the Turtle Fauna of Laos". Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 10: 113–116. doi:10.2744/CCB-0856.1.
  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. (Geoemyda spengleri, p. 250).

Further reading
  • Wilke, Hartmut (1998). Tortoises and Box Turtles. New York: Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge Inc.


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