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Amboina box turtle

Amboina box turtle
Cuora Amboinensis male2.jpg
Adult C. a. amboinensis from Sulawesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Subfamily: Geoemydinae
Genus: Cuora
Species: C. amboinensis
Binomial name
Cuora amboinensis
Daudin, 1802
Synonyms
Cuora amboinensis amboinensis
  • Testudo amboinensis Daudin, 1801
  • Testudo melanocephala Daudin, 1801
  • Emys amboinensis Schweigger, 1812
  • Emys melanocephala Schweigger, 1812
  • Terrapene amboinensis Merrem, 1820
  • Kinosternon amboinense Bell, 1825 (ex errore)
  • Cistuda amboinensis Gray, 1830
  • Clemmys (Clemmys) melanocephala Fitzinger, 1835
  • Cuora amboinensis Gray, 1856
  • Cistudo amboinensis Boulenger, 1889
  • Cyclemys amboinensis Boulenger, 1889
  • Cuora ambionensis Goldsmith, Proctor, Cole & Dadd, 1969 (ex errore)
  • Cuora amboiensis Nutaphand, 1979 (ex errore)
  • Cuora amboinensis amboinensis Rummler & Fritz, 1991
Cuora amboinensis couro
  • Emys couro Schweigger, 1812
  • Terrapene bicolor Bell, 1825
  • Terrapene couro Fitzinger, 1826
  • Emys cuoro Mertens & Wermuth, 1955 (ex errore)
  • Cuora amboinensis couro Rummler & Fritz, 1991
  • Cuora amboinensis cuoro Das, 1995
Cuora amboinensis kamaroma
  • Terrapene bicolor Bell, 1825
  • Cuora amboinensis kamaroma Rummler & Fritz, 1991
  • Cuora amboinensis kanzaroma Artner, 2003 (ex errore)
Cuora amboinensis lineata
  • Cuora amboinensis lineata McCord & Philippen, 1998

The Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis), or southeast Asian box turtle is a species of Asian box turtle.

It is found in the Nicobar Islands, eastern India (Assam), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, central and southern Vietnam, west Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines (Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Panay, etc.), Indonesia (Sulawesi, Ambon Island, Sumatra, Borneo, East Malaysia, Brunei, Nias, Enggano, Simeulue, Java, Sumbawa, Halmahera, Ceram, Seram, Buru, East Timor, Bali, Palawan and Maluku), and possibly China (Guangxi and Guangdong) and Sri Lanka.


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