Check List 14(6): 1007-1011, doi: 10.15560/14.6.1007
The southernmost distribution of the Eastern Black-bridged Leaf Turtle, Cyclemys pulchristriata Fritz, Gaulke & Lehr, 1997 (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae), in Ba Ria–Vung Tau Province, Vietnam
Luan Thanh Nguyen‡,
Vu Dang Hoang Nguyen§,
Sang Ngoc Nguyen§‡ Asian Turtle Program - Indo-Myanmar Conservation, Ha Noi, Vietnam§ Institute of Tropical Biology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Corresponding author:
Sang Ngoc Nguyen
(
ngocsangitb@yahoo.com
)
Academic editor: Ross MacCulloch © 2018 Luan Thanh Nguyen, Vu Dang Hoang Nguyen, Sang Ngoc Nguyen. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Nguyen LT, Nguyen VD, Nguyen S (2018) The southernmost distribution of the Eastern Black-bridged Leaf Turtle, Cyclemys pulchristriata Fritz, Gaulke & Lehr, 1997 (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae), in Ba Ria–Vung Tau Province, Vietnam. Check List 14(6): 1007-1011. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.6.1007 |  |
Abstract
We report the southernmost distribution of Eastern Black-bridged Leaf Turtle Cyclemys pulchristriata Fritz, Gaulke & Lehr, 1997, in an isolated mountain in Ba Ria–Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam based on morphological and molecular data of a wild juvenile captured in the wild. This record extends the distribution of this species about 150 km south of previous records and 600 km from its type locality.
Keywords Fresh water turtle, Mount Dinh, range extension, Vietnam