Philippen's striped turtle

Philippen's striped turtle, "Mauremys" philippeni, has recently shown to be an intergeneric hybrid (Stuart & Parham, 2006) between a male Mauremys sinensis and a female Cuora trifasciata.

Philippen's striped turtle
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Subfamily:	Geoemydinae
Genus:	Mauremys
Hybrid:	Mauremys sinensis♂ × Cuora trifasciata♀
Synonyms
"Mauremys" philippeni McCord & Iverson, 1992 Ocadia philippeni McCord & Iverson, 1992

The "species" is known only from a handful of specimens (mainly the type series), said to originate from Hainan, but all acquired from a pet trader in Hong Kong.

Etymology

The specific name, phillipeni, is in honor of German herpetologist Hans-Dieter Phillipen (born 1957).

External links

• Parham, James Ford; Simison, W. Brian; Kozk, Kenneth H.; Feldman, Chris R.; Shi, Haitao (2001). "New Chinese turtles: endangered or invalid? A reassessment of two species using mitochondrial DNA, allozyme electrophoresis and known-locality specimens". Animal Conservation. 4 (4): 357–367. Bibcode:2001AnCon...4..357P. doi:10.1017/S1367943001001421. S2CID 86757143.357-367&rft.date=2001&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:86757143#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017/S1367943001001421&rft_id=info:bibcode/2001AnCon...4..357P&rft.au=Parham, James Ford&rft.au=Simison, W. Brian&rft.au=Kozk, Kenneth H.&rft.au=Feldman, Chris R.&rft.au=Shi, Haitao&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Philippen's striped turtle" class="Z3988"> "Erratum". Animal Conservation. 5 (1): 86. 2002. Bibcode:2002AnCon...5...86.. doi:10.1017/S1367943002001117.