Cuora (galbinifrons) bourreti
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Geoemydidae |
| Genus: | Cuora |
| Species: | C. bourreti |
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Cuora bourreti Obst & Reimann, 1994 |
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Bourret's box turtle (Cuora bourreti ), also commonly known as the central Vietnamese flowerback box turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.
C. bourreti is found in central Vietnam and adjacent Laos.
Although Stuart and Parham (2004) argued that C. bourreti was quite distinct, possibly enough to justify its elevation to a full species, osteologic studies by Fritz et al. (2006) have shown that it probably better remains as a subspecies of C. galbinifrons. This is further substantiated by the finding of intergradation zones in north-central Vietnam, where hybrid populations of C. g. galbinifrons and C. g. bourreti are known to exist (Fritz et al. 2003).
C. bourreti is named in honor of French herpetologist René Léon Bourret.
The Vietnamese press has reported successful breeding of C. bourreti at a turtle farm in Daklak by a pharmacist who studied in France.
Two Bourret's box turtles hatched at the National Zoo in the United States on 12 June 2017.
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