Contents

Oldham's leaf turtle

Cyclemys oldhamii
Cyclemys oldhamii from Thailand
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Cyclemys
Species:	C. oldhamii
Binomial name
Cyclemys oldhamii Gray, 1863
Cyclemys oldhamii range map
Synonyms[4]
Cyclemys oldhamii Gray, 1863 Cyclemys oldhami [sic] — Günther, 1864 (ex errore) Cyclemys dhor shanensis Annandale, 1918[3] Geomyda tcheponensis Bourret, 1939[3] Cyclemys tiannanensis Kou, 1989[3]

Oldham's leaf turtle (Cyclemys oldhamii) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.

Etymology[edit]

Both the specific name, oldhamii, and the common name, Oldham's leaf turtle, are in honor of Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India.^[5] The generic name Cyclemys comes from the Greek κύκλος (kyklos, meaning 'round' or 'circle', referring to the shape of the carapace) and εμύς (emys; 'freshwater turtle').^[6]

Geographic range[edit]

C. oldhamii is found in Bangladesh, in the teraiofmizoram, in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, West Borneo, Sumatra and Java. In addition, Cyclemys oldhami shanensis – sometimes considered a distinct species due to its shell pattern, oft described as looking similar to aged meat - occurs from central Myanmar to Thailand and Cambodia. The type locality was originally given as "Mergui and Siam", and restricted to Mergui by Smith (1931).^[7]

Gallery[edit]

• 
  Cyclemys oldhamii carapace and plastron.

Hybrid[edit]

In Germany, a case of hybridization between a male Cyclemys (oldhamii) shanensis and a female Chinese stripe-necked turtle has been described.^[8]

See also[edit]

• Cyclemys

Footnotes[edit]

References[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cyclemys oldhami.

• Annandale, N. (1918). "Chelonia and Batrachia of the Inlé Lake". Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) 14: 67–69.
• Buskirk, James R.; Parham, James F.; Feldman, Chris R. (2005). "On the hybridisation between two distantly related Asian turtles (Testudines: Sacalia × Mauremys)". Salamandra 41: 21–26. PDF fulltext
• Fritz, U.; Gaulke, M.; Lehr, E. (1997). "Revision der südostasiatischen Dornschildkröten-Gattung Cyclemys Bell 1834, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art ". Salamandra 33 (3): 183–212. (in German).
• Gray, J.E. (1863). "Observations on the box tortoises, with the Descriptions of Three New Asiatic species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 173–179. (Cyclemys oldhamii, new species, p. 178).
• gray, J.E. (1864). "Observations on the box tortoises, with the Descriptions of Three New Asiatic species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 13: 105–111.
• Guicking, D.; Fritz, U.; Wink, M.; Lehr, E. (2002). "New data on the diversity of the Southeast Asian leaf turtle genus Cyclemys BELL, 1834. Molecular results (reptilia: Testudines: Geoemydidae)". Faunistische Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums für Tierkunde Dresden 23 (4): 75–86.
• Schilde, M. (2003). "Die Dornschildkröten der Gattung Cyclemys BELL, 1834 ". Draco 4 (13): 37–42. (in German).