Cyclemys, the Glossary
Cyclemys is a genus of freshwater turtles, commonly referred to as Asian leaf turtles, from the family Geoemydidae.[1]
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71 relations: Ancient Greek, Aquatic animal, Asian box turtle, Asian leaf turtle, Assam leaf turtle, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Captive breeding, Carapace, Carnivore, China, Common name, Cryptodira, Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle, Enigmatic leaf turtle, Family (biology), Genus, Geoemyda, Geoemydidae, Geoemydinae, Glossary of scientific naming, Height above mean sea level, Heosemys, India, Indonesia, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Java, Juvenile (organism), Keeled box turtle, Laos, Leaf, Lower risk, Mainland Southeast Asia, Malayan flat-shelled turtle, Malaysia, Mauremys, Morphology (biology), Myanmar, Myanmar brown leaf turtle, Near-threatened species, Nepal, Oldham's leaf turtle, Omnivore, Philippines, Phylogenetic tree, Pleurodira, Scute, Sexual dimorphism, South Asia, ... Expand index (21 more) »
- Taxa named by Thomas Bell (zoologist)
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is any animal, whether vertebrate or invertebrate, that lives in water for all or most of its lifetime.
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Asian box turtle
Asian box turtles are turtles of the genus Cuora in the family Geoemydidae.
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Asian leaf turtle
The Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata) is a species of turtle found in Southeast Asia.
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Assam leaf turtle
The Assam leaf turtle (Cyclemys gemeli) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Captive breeding
Captive breeding, also known as captive propagation, is the process of keeping plants or animals in controlled environments, such as wildlife reserves, zoos, botanic gardens, and other conservation facilities.
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Carapace
A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises.
Carnivore
A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
Cryptodira
The Cryptodira (hidden neck) are a suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles.
Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle
The eastern black-bridged leaf turtle (Cyclemys pulchristiata) is a species of Asian leaf turtles found in southern Indochina.
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Enigmatic leaf turtle
Cyclemys enigmatica, also known as the enigmatic leaf turtle, is a species of Asian leaf turtle.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Geoemyda
Geoemyda is a genus of freshwater turtles in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). Cyclemys and Geoemyda are turtle genera.
Geoemydidae
The Geoemydidae (formerly known as Bataguridae) are one of the largest and most diverse families in the order Testudines (turtles), with about 70 species.
Geoemydinae
The Geoemydinae are a subfamily of turtles consisting of 60 subspecies and 76 taxa.
Glossary of scientific naming
This is a list of terms and symbols used in scientific names for organisms, and in describing the names.
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Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Heosemys
Heosemys is a genus of freshwater turtles ("terrapins" in British English) in the family Geoemydidae (formerly called Bataguridae). Cyclemys and Heosemys are turtle genera.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
Juvenile (organism)
A juvenile is an individual organism (especially an animal) that has not yet reached its adult form, sexual maturity or size.
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Keeled box turtle
The keeled box turtle (Cuora mouhotii; syn. Pyxidea mouhotii) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
Lower risk
The ICUN has many ranks that define an animal's population and risk of extinction.
Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.
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Malayan flat-shelled turtle
The Malayan flat-shelled turtle (Notochelys platynota) is a species of turtle found in Southeast Asia.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Mauremys
Mauremys is a genus of turtles in the family Geoemydidae (formerly called Bataguridae). Cyclemys and Mauremys are turtle genera.
Morphology (biology)
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Myanmar brown leaf turtle
The Myanmar brown leaf turtle (Cyclemys fusca) is a species of Asian leaf turtle found in Myanmar.
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Near-threatened species
A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Oldham's leaf turtle
Oldham's leaf turtle (Cyclemys oldhamii) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Omnivore
An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
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Pleurodira
The Pleurodira are one of the two living suborders of turtles, the other being the Cryptodira.
Scute
A scute or scutum (Latin: scutum; plural: scuta "shield") is a bony external plate or scale overlaid with horn, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodilians, and the feet of birds.
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Sympatry
In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.
Synonym (taxonomy)
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
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Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.
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Terai
The Terai or Tarai is to a lowland region in parts of northern India and southern Nepal that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Thomas Bell (zoologist)
Thomas Hornsey Bell FRS FLS (11 October 1792 – 13 March 1880) was an English zoologist, dental surgeon and writer, born in Poole, Dorset, England.
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Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.
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Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
Turtle shell
The turtle shell is a shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of turtles (the order Testudines), completely enclosing all the vital organs of the turtle and in some cases even the head.
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group
The Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (TTWG) is an informal working group of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG).
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Vietnamese pond turtle
The Vietnamese pond turtle or Annam leaf turtle (Mauremys annamensis) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Western black-bridged leaf turtle
The western black-bridged leaf turtle (Cyclemys atripons) is a species of Asian leaf turtle found in southern Indochina.
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Wildlife trade
Wildlife trade refers to the products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions.
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Yangjiang
Yangjiang, alternately romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China.
Zoology
ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.
See also
Taxa named by Thomas Bell (zoologist)
- Ahaetulla oxyrhyncha
- Alsodes
- Alsodes monticola
- Argentine horned frog
- Aurivela longicauda
- Cyclemys
- Darwin's iguana
- Diplolaemus
- Diplolaemus bibronii
- Galictis
- Hylorina sylvatica
- King's worm lizard
- Kinixys
- Leopard tortoise
- Leptophis
- Lerista
- Lerista lineata
- Liolaemus bibronii
- Liolaemus darwinii
- Liolaemus gracilis
- Liolaemus kingii
- Lissotriton
- Marine iguana
- Metacarcinus edwardsii
- Microlophus grayii
- Northland green gecko
- Pagurus forbesii
- Pleurodema bufoninum
- Pyxis (turtle)
- Sternotherus
- Tropiduridae
- Uromastyx acanthinura
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclemys
Also known as Asian leaf turtles.
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