Philippen's striped turtle explained

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.

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).^[1]

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 . . 4 . 4 . 357–367 . 10.1017/S1367943001001421 . 2001AnCon...4..357P . 86757143 . . 5 . 1 . 86 . 10.1017/S1367943002001117 . Erratum. 2002 . 2002AnCon...5...86. . free .

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Ocadia philippeni, p. 206).