theTurtleRoom said:Ben - great pictures! So good to see these!
For those who asked...
Cuora is the accepted genus these days. I believe their english common name is "Flowerback Box Turtle".
RedfootsRule said:theTurtleRoom said:Ben - great pictures! So good to see these!
For those who asked...
Cuora is the accepted genus these days. I believe their english common name is "Flowerback Box Turtle".
They were re-assigned to their own "cistoclemmys" because they were considered to terrestrial for a box turtle. Atleast thats what I heard, but maybe its not all-around accepted.
RedfootsRule said:Many sources still place them as galbinofrons, it seems. I don't think any species will ever be fully accepted. When did carbonaria go from geochelone to chelonidis? Yet many still list it as geochelone...Same with leopards....All starts with that one biologist that wants to name it his own .
theTurtleRoom said:RedfootsRule said:Many sources still place them as galbinofrons, it seems. I don't think any species will ever be fully accepted. When did carbonaria go from geochelone to chelonidis? Yet many still list it as geochelone...Same with leopards....All starts with that one biologist that wants to name it his own .
Haha, not quite. Sometimes for things being names as species instead of subspecies, that is the case.
However, genus names are more related to how things fit together in relation to one another. bourreti have been accepted as full species status by most people since 2009, and some as early as 2004, when the first suggestion of them being full species was shown in research. A lot of these changes have to do with DNA.
The former Geochelone species you mention have been chagned because of the genetic work done showing how distant the relations are between the star species (elegans and platynota) and the species you mention. Hence, the change in genus for many of those animals. This change has been widely recognized since at least 2007, if not earlier. In the hobby, a lot of stuff gets called by old names for longer periods of time than in the academic realm, mainly because most people don't keep up with it; this can be for various reasons from time to lack-of-accessibility.
RedfootsRule said:Haha, I know, it just seems like everyone recognizes it as something different. To often it gets changed, and we're all on a different track...Geochelone pardalis or stigmochelys? I still don't understand that one =/.
RedfootsRule said:Astrochelys was once geochelone? I've never heard it called anything else other then astrochelys....