Philippen's striped turtle
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| Philippen's striped turtle | |
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| Scientific classificationEdit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Geoemydidae |
| Subfamily: | Geoemydinae |
| Genus: | Mauremys |
| Hybrid: | Mauremys sinensis♂ × Cuora trifasciata♀ |
| Synonyms | |
Philippen's striped turtle, "Mauremys" philippeni, has recently shown to be an intergeneric hybrid (Stuart & Parham, 2006) between a male Mauremys sinensis and a female Cuora trifasciata. The "species" is known only from a handful of specimens (mainly the type series), said to originate from Hainan, but all acquired from a pet trader in Hong Kong.
Etymology
The specific name, phillipeni, is in honor of German herpetologist Hans-Dieter Phillipen (born 1957).[1]
References
- ↑ 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. (Ocadia philippeni, p. 206).
External links
- Parham, James Ford; Simison, W. Brian; Kozk, Kenneth H.; Feldman, Chris R.; Shi, Haitao (2001). "New Chinese turtles: endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens". Animal Conservation. 4 (4): 357–367. Bibcode:2001AnCon...4..357P. doi:10.1017/S1367943001001421. S2CID 86757143. "Erratum". Animal Conservation. 5 (1): 86. 2002. Bibcode:2002AnCon...5...86.. doi:10.1017/S1367943002001117.
