Chinese Box Turtle – Hong Kong Wildlife | 黃緣閉殼龜 – 香港野生動物

There are only 5 species of freshwater turtles native to Hong Kong. But more than 5 other species can be found in here, and they were introduced. This is one of them.

Chinese box turtle (Cuora flavomarginata) is also called Yellow-margined box turtle, or Golden-headed turtle.

Cuora flavomarginata (Gray, 1863)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Cuora
Species: flavomarginata

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黃緣盒龜, 黃緣閉殼龜, 黃緣箱龜, 夾板龜, 克蛇龜, 食蛇龜, 金頭龜, 中國盒龜, 中國閉殼龜, 中國箱龜


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