Cuora mouhotii

Keeled box turtle
C. m. mouhotii
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Subfamily:	Geoemydinae
Genus:	Cuora
Species:	C. mouhotii
Binomial name
Cuora mouhotii Gray, 1862
Synonyms
C. m. mouhotii Cyclemys mouhotii Gray, 1862 Pyxidea mouhotii — Gray, 1863 Emys mouhotii — Strauch, 1865 Cyclemys mouhoti Boulenger, 1890 (ex errore) Pyxidea mouhoti — M.A. Smith, 1931 Emys mouhoti — Bourret, 1941 Pyxidea mouboti H.M. Smith & James, 1958 (ex errore) Geoemyda mouhoti — McDowell, 1964 Cyclemys mouheti Tikader & Sharma, 1985 (ex errore) Geoemyda mouhotii — Artner, 1995 Pyxidea mouhotii mouhotii — Fritz, Andreas & Lehr, 1998 Pyxidea mouhotti Hallermann, Dirksen & Uetz, 1999 (ex errore) Cuora mouhotii mouhotii — Artner, 2003 C. m. obsti Pyxidea mouhotii obsti Fritz, Andreas & Lehr, 1998 Pyxidea mouhotti obsti — Hallermann, Dirksen & Uetz, 1999 Cuora mouhotii obsti — Artner, 2003

The keeled box turtle (Cuora mouhotii syn. Pyxidea mouhotii ) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.

C. mouhotii is native to Asia, where it occurs in China, India, Laos, Burma, Vietnam,Thailand, and Bhutan.

Other common names for C. mouhotii include keel-backed terrapin, jagged-shelled turtle, and Mouhot's turtle.

The specific name, mouhotii, is in honor of Alexandre Henri Mouhot, a French naturalist and explorer.

C. mouhotii is sometimes treated as the sole species of the monotypic genus Pyxidea.Phylogenetic analysis using has provided evidence that the species is part of the "Cuora group", a monophyletic group of Asian box turtles, and the name Pyxidea should probably be synonymized with Cuora, making the keeled box turtle part of that genus. Other phylogenetic studies of Cuora support this conclusion. In addition, its morphology is not distinct enough from that of Cuora species to keep it separate, and it is known to hybridize with Cuora galbinifrons.

There are two subspecies, C. m. mouhotii and C. m. obsti.

The Southern Vietnamese population of Cuora mouhotii lives alongside Cuora picturata. Since Cuora mouhotii is known to hybridize with the closest living relatives of Cuora picturata (Cuora galbinifrons and Cuora bourreti) there is a possibility of hybridization in the wild between these two populations.

...
Wikipedia