Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution
Author
Figueroa, Alex
Author
Low, Martyn E. Y.
0000-0001-7927-7149
martyn.low@nus.edu.sg
Author
Lim, Kelvin K. P.
0000-0002-0638-9198
kelvinlim@nus.edu.sg
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-18
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1
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Mauremys sinensis
(Gray, 1834)
—
Non-native; Introduced.
Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle
Singapore
records.
Ocadia sinensis
—Ramsay
et al.
, 2007: 165.—P.K.A. Ng, 2009: 53, 64, 143, 160, 203.
Mauremys sinensis
—T.H. Ng & K.K. Lim, 2010: 123 (Bedok Reservoir; MacRitchie Reservoir).—D.C.J. Yeo & C.S.W. Chia, 2010: 35.—N.
Baker, 2015a: 25
(Bedok Reservoir; MacRitchie Reservoir; Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve; Upper Seletar Reservoir).—Trageser, 2015: 148 (Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve).—Wijedasa, 2015: 180.
Remarks.
Mauremys sinensis
is native to southern
China
,
Hainan
,
Taiwan
, and
Vietnam
(TTWG 2021). Between the 1900s and 2000s,
M. sinensis
was imported into
Singapore
as pets (Ng & Lim 2010). Since then, individuals of
M. sinensis
have been observed in numerous localities, including ECP, MR, SBG (Ng 2009; Wijedasa 2015), BR, MR, USR (Ng & Lim 2010), and SBWR (
Baker 2015a
; Trageser 2015).
LKCNHM
&
NHMUK
Museum
specimens.
Upper Seletar Reservoir
:
ZRC
.2.6674 (
12-Dec-2007
)
.
Additional
Singapore
museum specimens.
No specimens.