Sulawesi forest turtle

The Sulawesi forest turtle (Leucocephalon yuwonoi) is a critically endangered species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is monotypic within the genus Leucocephalon.[2] It is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Sulawesi forest turtle
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Subfamily:	Geoemydinae
Genus:	Leucocephalon McCord, Iverson, Spinks & Shaffer, 2000
Species:	L. yuwonoi
Binomial name
Leucocephalon yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995)
Synonyms[2][3]
Geoemyda yuwonoi McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995 Heosemys yuwonoi — Fritz & Obst, 1996 Leucocephalon yuwonoi — McCord, Iverson, Spinks & Shaffer, 2000 Notochelys yuwonoi — Artner, 2008 Leucocephalon yuwonoi — TTWG, 2014

Etymology

The specific name, yuwonoi, is in honor of Indonesian herpetologist Frank Bambang Yuwono (born 1958).[4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. yuwonoi are freshwater swamps and rivers.[1][3]

Conservation

As of 2016 The Riverview Zoo in Peterborough, Ontario, had managed to hatch two Sulawesi forest turtles.[5]

See also

• Forsten's tortoise (Indotestudo forstenii) – another threatened turtle endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia.

References

1. Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Leucocephalon yuwonoi (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T40761A97369570. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T40761A10363014.en. Downloaded on 26 January 2021.
2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 226–227. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
3. Species Leucocephalon yuwonoi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
4. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leucocephalon yuwonoi, p. 292).
5. "A Sulawesi Forest Turtle Hatched at Riverview Park & Zoo".

Further reading

• Artner H (2008). "The world's extant turtle species, Part 1". Emys 15 (3): 4–32. (Notochelys yuwonoi, new combination, p. 10).
• Fritz U, Obst FJ (1996). "Zur Kenntnis der Celebes-Erdschildkröte, Heosemys yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995)". Herpetofauna 18 (102): 27–34. (Heosemys yuwonoi, new combination). (in German).
• McCord WP, Iverson JB, Boeadi [B] (1995). "A New Batagurid Turtle from Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia". Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1 (4): 311–316. (Geoemyda yuwonoi, new species).
• McCord WP, Iverson JB, Spinks, Shaffer HB (2000). "A new genus of geoemydid turtle from Asia". Hamadryad 25 (2): 20–24. (Leucocephalon, new genus; L. yuwonoi, new combination).