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Family: Emydinae– the pond turtles (Rafinesque, 1815)
Genus: Glyptemys– American bog turtles (Agassiz, 1857)
Genus: Terrapene–
American box turtles (Merrem, 1820)
- T. carolina, Common Box Turtle (Linnaeus, 1758) N. America, 6in/15cm
T. c. carolina,
Eastern Box Turtle (Linnaeus, 1758)
T. c. bauri,
Florida Box Turtle (Taylor, 1895)
- T. c. major,
Gulf
Coast Box Turtle (Agassiz, 1857)
T. c. mexicana,
Mexican Box Turtle (Gray, 1849)
T. c. triungus,
Three-toed Box Turtle (Agassiz, 1857)
T. c. yucatana,
Yucatan Box Turtle (Boulinger, 1895)
T. coahuila,
Coahuila Box Turtle (Schmidt and Owens, 1944) N. America, 6in/15cm, critically
endangered
T. nelson, Spotted
Box Turtle (Stejneger, 1925) N. America, 5in/14cm
T. n. nelson,
Northern Spotted Box Turtle (Stejneger, 1925)
T. n. klauberi,
Southern Spotted Box Turtle (Bogert, 1942)
T. ornata, Ornate or Western Box Turtle (Agassiz, 1857) N. America, 5in/14cm
T. o. ornata,
Ornate or Western Box Turtle (Agassiz, 1857)
- T. o. luteola,
Desert Box Turtle (Smith and Ramsey, 1952)
Family: Geoemydinae– semi-terrestrial Asiatic turtles (Theobald, 1868)
Genus: Cistoclemmys (or
Cuora)-
Asian box turtles (Gray, 1856)
- C. bourreti,
Bourret’s Box Turtle (Obst and Reinmann, 1994) Vietnam, 7.5in/19cm, critically
endangered
C. flavomarginata,
Chinese or Yellow-margined Box Turtle (Gray, 1863) China, 7in/17cm, endangered
C. galbinifrons,
Indochinese or Flower-back Box Turtle (Bourret, 1939), Indochina, 7.5/19cm, endangered
C. g. galibinifrons,
Flower-back Box Turtle (Bourret, 1939)
C. g. bourreti, Bourret’s
Box
Turtle (Obst and Reimann, 1994)
C. g. hainanensis,
Hainan Island Box Turtle (Li, 1958)
C. picturata,
Southern Vietnam Box Turtle (Lehr, Fritz, and Obst, 1998) Vietnam,
7in/18cm, critically
endangered
Genus: Cyclemys–
Asian leaf turtles (Bell, 1834)
- C. dentata, Asian
Leaf Turtle (Gray, 1831) Asia, 9in/23cm, forest (as adults), endangered
C. oldhami,
Southeast Asian Leaf Turtle (Gray, 1863) Indochina, 8in/20cm, endangered
Genus: Geoemyda–
Black-breasted leaf turtles (Gray, 1834)
Genus: Heosemys–Indochinese pond turtles (Stejneger, 1902)
- H. depressa, Arakan
Forest Turtle (Anderson, 1875), Indochina, 11in/29cm, critically endangered
H. spinosa, Spiny
Turtle (Gray, 1830) Indochina, 9in/23cm, endangered
Genus: Luecocephalon–
Sulwanese forest turtles (McCord, Iverson, Spinks and Shaffer, 2000)
L. yuwonoi,
Sulawesi Forest Turtle (McCord, Iverson, and Boeadi, 1995) Indonesia,
11in/28cm, critically
endangered
Genus: Melanochelys–
Indo-asian black turtles (Gray, 1869)
- M. tricarinata,
Tricarinate Hill or Three-keeled Land Turtle (Blyth, 1856), India,
6in/16cm, endangered
- M. trijuga, Indian
Black Turtle (Schweigger, 1812) India, 15in/38cm, endangered
Genus: Pangshura- roofed turtles (Gray, 1856)
P. sylhetensis,
Assam Roofed Turtle (Jerdon, 1870) India, 9in/24cm, endangered
Genus:
Pyxidea (or Cuora)- keeled box turtles (Gray, 1826?)
P. mouhotii,
Keeled Box Turtle (Gray, 1826) Indochina, 7in/18cm, endangered
Genus:
Rhinoclemmys–
Central and South American wood turtles (Fitzinger, 1835)
- R. annulata,
Tropical Wood Turtle (Gray, 1860) Central and South America, 9in/23cm
R. areolata,
Furrowed Wood Turtle (Dumeril and Bibron, 1851) Central America,
9.5in/24cm
R. pulcherrima,
Painted Wood Turtle (Gray, 1855) Central America, 8.5in/22cm, threatened
R. p. pulcherrima, Guerrero
Wood
Turtle (Gray, 1856)
R. p. incisa, Incised
Wood
Turtle (Bocourt, 1868)
R. p. manni, Central American Wood Turtle (Dunn, 1930)
R. p. rogerbarbouri,
Western Mexico Wood Turtle (Ernst, 1978)
R. rubida, Oxaca
Wood Turtle (Cope, 1870) Mexico, 9in/23cm
Genus: Vijaychelys– cane forest turtles (Prashag, Schmidt, Fritzsch, Muller, Gemel and Fritz,
2006)
- V. silvatica,
Cochin Cane Forest Turtle (Henderson, 1912) India, 5in/13cm, critically endangered.
Revised 5-29-2012 (C) Mark Adkins
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