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Keeled Box Turtle

Cuora mouhotii (Gray, 1862)

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Cuora mouhotii (Gray, 1862)
Name authority
(Gray, 1862)
Common name
Keeled Box Turtle
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Reptilia
Order
Testudines
Family
Geoemydidae
Genus
Cuora
Extinction status
Not supplied by this source

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
  9. orderTestudines Batsch, 1788
  10. suborderCryptodira
  11. superfamilyTestudinoidea
  12. familyGeoemydidae
  13. genusCuora
  14. speciesCuora mouhotii (Gray, 1862)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Cuora. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Pan's Box TurtleCuora pani Song, 1984GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Chinese Three-striped Box TurtleCuora trifasciata (Bell, 1825)GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Eastern Yellow-headed Box Turtle [aurocapitata]Cuora aurocapitata Luo & Zong, 1988GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Southern Vietnam Box TurtleCuora picturata Lehr, Fritz & Obst, 1998GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Indochinese Box TurtleCuora galbinifrons Bourret, 1939GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
McCord's Box TurtleCuora mccordi Ernst, 1988GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Central Vietnamese Three-striped Box Turtle [annamitica]Cuora cyclornata Blanck, Mccord & Le Minh, 2006GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Indonesian Box TurtleCuora couro (Schweigger, 1812)GeoemydidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

Browse 57 records assigned to Geoemydidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Cuora serrata Iverson & Mccord, 1992 Iverson & Mccord, 1992synonym
Pyxidea mouhotii obsti Fritz, Andreas & Lehr, 1998 Fritz, Andreas & Lehr, 1998synonym
Pyxidea mouboti Smith & James, 1958 Smith & James, 1958synonym
Cyclemys mouhotii Gray, 1862 Gray, 1862synonym

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

China (Hainan Island, Yunnan), Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar (= Burma), E India (Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh etc.), Bhutan

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cuora&species=mouhotii Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:6BRPH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.