Cuora pani
| Pan's box turtle | |
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| Pan's box turtle, Cuora pani pani | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Geoemydidae |
| Subfamily: | Geoemydinae |
| Genus: | Cuora |
| Species: | C. pani |
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Cuora pani Song, 1984 |
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Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani ) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). The yellow-headed box turtle is sometimes included herein as a subspecies Cuora pani aurocapitata.
The specific name, pani, is probably in honor of Chinese herpetologist Pan Lei.
Cuora pani pani, the nominotypical subspecies, is endemic to the central Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan and Hubei (Blanck & Tang, 2005).
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