Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 247-248

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968148

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF6C-B881-FF6B-41947A390E36

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scientific name

Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834)
status

 

Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.

Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle

Singapore records.

Ocadia sinensis —Ramsay et al., 2007: 165.—P.K.A. Ng, 2009: 53, 64, 143, 160, 203.

Mauremys sinensis —T.H. Ng & K.K. Lim, 2010: 123 (Bedok Reservoir; MacRitchie Reservoir).—D.C.J. Yeo & C.S.W. Chia, 2010: 35.—N. Baker, 2015a: 25 (Bedok Reservoir; MacRitchie Reservoir; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve; Upper Seletar Reservoir).—Trageser, 2015: 148 (Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve).—Wijedasa, 2015: 180.

Remarks. Mauremys sinensis is native to southern China, Hainan, Taiwan, and Vietnam (TTWG 2021). Between the 1900s and 2000s, M. sinensis was imported into Singapore as pets (Ng & Lim 2010). Since then, individuals of M. sinensis have been observed in numerous localities, including ECP, MR, SBG (Ng 2009; Wijedasa 2015), BR, MR, USR (Ng & Lim 2010), and SBWR ( Baker 2015a; Trageser 2015).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Upper Seletar Reservoir : ZRC.2.6674 (12-Dec-2007) .

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Geoemydidae

Genus

Mauremys

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