Beal's eyed turtle

Beale's eyed turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Subfamily: Geoemydinae
Genus: Sacalia
Species: S. bealei
Binomial name
Sacalia bealei
(Gray, 1831)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cistuda bealei Gray, 1831
  • Emys bealii [sic] Gray, 1834
    (ex errore)
  • Emys (Pyxidemys) bealei
    Fitzinger, 1835
  • Clemmys bealii Strauch, 1862
  • Sacalia bealii Gray, 1870
  • Cistudo bealii Siebenrock, 1909
  • Clemmys [bealii] bealii
    Siebenrock, 1909
  • Chemmys [sic] beali T. Vogt, 1922 (ex errore)
  • Clemmys bealei Lindholm, 1929
  • Cistudo bealei M.A. Smith, 1931
  • Sacalia bealei McDowell, 1964
  • Mauremys bealei
    Wermuth & Mertens, 1977
  • Sacalia beali
    Ewert in Harless & Morlock, 1979
  • Sacalia bealei bealei
    C. Ernst & R. Barbour, 1989
  • Clemmys beadei [sic] Yeh, 1994
    (ex errore)

Beale's eyed turtle (Sacalia bealei ) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae).

Common names

It is sometimes called Beale's four-eyed turtle, though that is not an ideal common name due to the possibility of confusion with the four-eyed turtle proper (Sacalia quadriocellata).

Etymology

The specific name, bealei, is in honor of Thomas Beale, a Scottish naturalist and merchant in China.[2]

Geographic range

Sacalia bealei is found in China and Hong Kong.

Conservation status

Listed as Endangered by the IUCN,[3] these turtles are hunted for use in folk medicine.[4]

Footnotes

  1. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 247. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. 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. (Sacalia bealei, p. 20).
  3. ATTWG (2000)
  4. da Nóbrega Alves et al. (2008)

References


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