Mauremys annamensis

– Critically Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

REPTILIA

Order:

TESTUDINES

Family:

GEOEMYDIDAE

Scientific Name:

Mauremys annamensis

Species Authority:

(Siebenrock, 1903)

Common Name/s:

English

—

ANNAM LEAF TURTLE

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

CR A1d+2d ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

2000

Assessor/s:

Asian Turtle Trade Working Group

Evaluator/s:

Buhlmann, K., Rhodin, A. & van Dijk, P.P. (Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Red List Authority)

Justification:

An extremely scarce species in Viet Nam.

History:

1988	-	Insufficiently Known as Annamemys annamensis (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Insufficiently Known as Annamemys annamensis (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)
1996	-	Lower Risk/least concern (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Viet Nam

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats

List of Threats:

9.9	Intrinsic factors - Restricted range (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.

Citation:	Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Mauremys annamensis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 August 2008.
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