flowerback box turtle, C. galbinifrons McCord's box turtle, C. mccordi †Cuora miyatai (Middle Pleistocene of Japan) Keeled box turtle, C. mouhotii (two subspecies) Pan's box turtle, C. pani = "C. chriskarannarum" Southern Vietnamese box turtle, C. picturata †Cuora pitheca (Late Miocene of China) Golden coin turtle or Chinese three-striped box turtle, C. trifasciata †Cuora tungia (Lower Pleistocene of China) Yunnan box turtle, C. yunnanensis - rediscovered in 2004, verified in 2007 Zhou's box turtle, C. zhoui = "C. pallidicephala" Cuora serrata, originally described as C. galbinifrons serrata by Iverson & Mccord and later considered a distinct species is a hybrid of the keeled box turtle and taxa of the Indochinese box turtle complex as shown by the genetic studies of Parham et al. and Stuart & Parham (2004). A single specimen of C. serrata has been found in the wild, lending credence to the possibility that other specimens arose through natural hybridization or even from wild populations. No Chinese turtle farm is known to produce C. serrata-like specimens. The occurrence of wild hybrids is often regarded as "evolution in progress", a terminology and point of view that is not always accepted. It has yet to be confirmed, whether all C. serrata from the wild have originated by direct hybridization of C. mouhotii and C. galbinifrons, or also by "hybridisation" of C. serrata × C. serrata. Unnamed hybrids of several other Cuora taxa are also known, as are intergeneric hybrids such as Mauremys iversoni, a hybrid between Cuora trifasciata and Mauremys mutica, which is intentionally produced in Chinese turtle farms. In captivity Wild-caught C. amboinensis specimens were frequently available in the exotic animal trade, but are getting rarer now; other species are rare to commercially extinct. See also Box turtle Notes References Further reading Buskirk, J. R., et al. (2005). On the hybridisation between two distantly related Asian turtles (Testudines: Sacalia × Mauremys). Salamandra 41, 21–26. Taxa named by John Edward Gray Turtles of Asia