Name:Cuora pani
Alias:Cuora pani,Pan's box turtle,Pan's box turtle
Outline:Testudines
Family:Testudinidae B.turtle
length:13-15cm
Weight:300-700g
Life:50-80years
IUCN:LC
Pan's box turtle is called Pan's box turtle in foreign language, and has no subspecies.
Pan's box turtle is the northernmost species of the genus Pan's box turtle in China. It was first discovered in 1981 in a ditch beside a rice field at an altitude of 420 meters in Xujiaba, Pingli County, Shaanxi Province. In 1984, Song Mingtao named it Pan's box turtle in memory of Professor Pan Zhongguo, the former director of Shaanxi Institute of Zoology.
American C.H. Ernst and W.P. McCord (1987) published Cuora chriskarannarum based on specimens collected in Jinping County and Ta Lau Mountain (23°30′N, 102°25′E) in southern Yunnan based on animal trade. Zhao Ermi (1989) pointed out that the latter should be a synonym of Pan's box turtle. Therefore, the distribution of Pan's box turtle in China is only known to have a suspicious record in Pingli, Shaanxi and southern Yunnan, and it is discontinuously distributed, with a latitude of 10° between the two places. This turtle is rare in number. Although it has been heard that some specimens have been collected later, there is no official report of the exact origin, so the record of its distribution range has not been expanded. The distribution relationship between Pan's box turtle and other species of the genus Pan's box turtle is a mystery, and the large distribution gap of Pan's box turtle itself is even more of a mystery. Both are topics worthy of in-depth discussion. In 2000, Li Dong and others successively found three in Guangyuan County, Sichuan. Around 2009, six wild Pan's box turtles were found in Xinyang, Henan Province.
Pan's box turtle is an aquatic turtle that lives in mountain streams, rock cracks and rivers with gentle currents and clear water in Ding Hilly Area. It is a carnivorous turtle that feeds on insects, small fish, shrimps, earthworms, livestock and poultry viscera, etc. under artificial breeding conditions. It can eat normally at a temperature of 20℃, and the most suitable temperature is 22-30℃. It stops eating or eats less at around 15℃, and enters hibernation below 10℃. The hibernation period is from November to early April of the following year. The hibernation period in southern China is shorter, generally from December to February of the following year.
The egg-laying period of Pan's box turtle is from July to August every year. The eggs are oval, and 1-9 eggs are laid each time, and they can be laid in batches. The egg weighs 10-20 grams, the average long diameter of the egg is 35-45 mm, and the average short diameter of the egg is 18-25 mm.
Listed in the "Red List of Endangered Species of the World Conservation Union" (IUCN 2000 ver 3.1) - Critically Endangered (CR).
Listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Listed in the China Red List of Biodiversity - Vertebrate Volume (Reptiles) - Critically Endangered (CR).
Listed in the List of Terrestrial Wildlife with Important Economic and Scientific Research Values under State Protection issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.
Listed in the China Red List of Endangered Animals - Amphibians and Reptiles - Critically Endangered (CR).
Listed in the "National Key Protected Wildlife in China" - Level II.
Listed in the "Mainly Protected Wildlife in Shaanxi Province".
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