Terrestrial Turtles Overview

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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: HeosemysIndochinese 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