Chinese pond turtle

Chinese pond turtle
Non-native M. reevesii in East Timor
Melanistic male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Mauremys
Species:
M. reevesii
Binomial name
Mauremys reevesii
(Gray, 1831)[2]
Synonyms[3]
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  • * Emys reevesii
    Gray, 1831
  • * Clemmys (Clemmys) reevesii
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • * Emys vulgaris picta
    Schlegel, 1844
  • * Emys japonica
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron in
    A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851
  • * Geoclemys reevesii
    — Gray, 1856
  • * Damonia reevesii
    — Gray, 1869
  • * Damonia unicolor
    Gray, 1873
  • * Clemmys unicolor
    — Sclater, 1873
  • * Damonia reevesii var. unicolor
    — Boulenger, 1889
  • * Geoclemys [reevesii] reevesii
    — Siebenrock, 1907
  • * Geoclemys reevesii unicolor
    — Siebenrock, 1907
  • * Geoclemmys [sic] reevesi
    — Vogt, 1924 (ex errore)
  • * Geoclemys grangeri
    Schmidt, 1925
  • * Geoclemys paracaretta
    Chang, 1929
  • * Geoclemys reevesi grangeri
    — Mell, 1929
  • * Chinemys reevesi
    — H.M. Smith, 1931
  • * Geoclemys papacaretta [sic]
    Fang, 1934 (ex errore)
  • * Emys reevesi
    — Bourret, 1941
  • * Chinemys reevesii
    Mertens & Wermuth, 1955
  • * Chinemys reevesi
    — Mao, 1971
  • * Chinemys grangeri
    — Pritchard, 1979
  • * Chinemys pani
    Tao, 1988
  • * Chinemys reevessi [sic]
    Obst, 1996 (ex errore)
  • * Chinemys reveesii [sic]
    Fritz, 1996 (ex errore)
  • * Mauremys reevesii
    — Spinks, Shaffer, Iverson & McCord, 2004

Mauremys reevesii, commonly known as the Chinese pond turtle, the Chinese three-keeled pond turtle, or Reeves' turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae, a family which was formerly called Bataguridae.[2] The species is native to East Asia.

It is one of the two most commonly found species used for divination that have been recovered from Shang dynasty sites.[4]

Mauremys reevesii
  1. ^ van Dijk, P.P. 2011. Mauremys reevesii (errata version published in 2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T170502A97431862. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T170502A6783291.en. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (14 December 2010). "Turtles of the world, 2010 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5: 000.112. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v3.2010. ISBN 978-0965354097. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011.
  3. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 232–233. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755.
  4. ^ Keightley, David N. (1978). Sources of Shang history : the oracle-bone inscriptions of Bronze Age Chin (2 ed.). Berkeley ; London: University of California Press. p. 9. ISBN 0-520-05455-5.