Taxonavigation

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., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-5323-5026-9). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Vernacular names