First record of Western Black-Bridged Leaf Turtle, Cyclemys atripons Iverson & McCord, 1997 (Testudines, Geoemydidae), in Vietnam

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Ha Van Hoang¹  Jack Carney¹  Luan Thanh Nguyen¹  Timothy E.M. McCormack¹  Thang Tai Nguyen¹  Ngon Quang Lam²  Sang Ngoc Nguyen³ 

[1] Asian Turtle Program of Indo-Myanmar Conservation;Can Tho City Union of Science and Technology Associations;Institute of Tropical Biology;

关键词: Freshwater turtle;    Indochina;    Mekong delta;    Phu Qu;   

DOI  :  10.15560/16.3.571

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We report the distribution of the Western Black-bridged Leaf Turtle, Cyclemys atripons Iverson & McCord, 1997, from Vietnam for the first time. This species was recorded on Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, southern Vietnam based on morphological and molecular evidence. This record extends the distribution of this species approximately 100 km east of the previously recorded location in Kok Kong, Cambodia. This discovery raises the recorded number of species of genus Cyclemys in Vietnam to three: C. atripons, C. oldhamii Gray, 1863, and C. pulchristriata Fritz, Gaulke & Lehr, 1997.

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