Cuora mccordi

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Division: Pan-Testudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira
Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Familia: Geoemydidae
Subfamilia: Geoemydinae
Genus: Cuora
Species: Cuora mccordi
Name

Cuora mccordi Ernst 1988
Holotype: USNM 281850
Type locality: highland near Paise, Guangxi Province, China (23° 54’ N, 106° 37’ E).

Etymology: mccordi: named for US herpetologist Bill McCord.
References

Ernst,C.H. 1988. Cuora mccordi, a new chines box turtle from Guangxi Province. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 101: 466-470.
IUCN: Cuora mccordi Ernst, 1988 (Critically Endangered)
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. Paywall. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Vernacular names
čeština: Želva McCordova
Deutsch: McCords Scharnierschildkröte
English: McCord's box turtle
日本語: マコードハコガメ

McCord's box turtle (Cuora mccordi) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is native to China.

Etymology

The specific name, mccordi, is in honor of American veterinarian William Patrick McCord (born 1950).[3]
Taxonomy

Originally described by American herpetologist Carl Henry Ernst in 1988 from a specimen obtained from the Chinese pet trade, C. mccordi lacked geographic range data for 19 years until Chinese herpetologist Ting Zhou et al. (2007) were able to report it from the wild.
Geographic range

McCord's box turtle is endemic to central Guangxi province, China.
Conservation status

C. mccordi is one of the most endangered Chinese endemic turtle species, highly sought after for traditional Chinese medicine and by turtle hobbyists.
Description

Once thought to reach only 14 cm (5.5 in) straight carapace length, specimens of McCord's box turtle of up to 18 cm (7.1 in) straight carapace length are known now.
References

"Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
Fritz & Havaš, 2007.

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. (Cuora mccordi, p. 172).

Bibliography

ERNST CH (1988). "Cuora mccordi, a new Chinese box turtle from Guangxi Province". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 466-470.
FRITZ U, HAVAŠ P (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 217.
ZHOU T (2007a). "A survey of captive population dynamics for six endemic Chinese Box Turtle species". Sichuan Journal of Zoology, Chengdu 26 (2): 448-450.
ZHOU T, LI P-P (2007). "Chelonian species diversity and current status in China". Sichuan Journal of Zoology 26 (2): 464-467. (in Chinese)
ZHOU T (2007b). "Endemic Chinese box turtles". China Nature (2): 20-22. (in Chinese)
ZHOU T, BLANCK T, McCORD WP, LI P-P (2008). "Tracking Cuora mccordi (Ernst, 1988); the first record of its natural habitat; a re-description; with data on captive populations and its vulnerability". Hamadryad 32 (1): 46-58.