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Sacalia bealei (GRAY, 1831)

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Higher TaxaGeoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Eyed Turtle, Beal’s Four-Eyed turtle
G: Chinesische Pfauenaugen-Wasserschildkröte
Chinese: 眼斑水龟 
SynonymCistuda bealei GRAY 1831: 71
Emys Bealei — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835: 325
Clemmys bealii — STRAUCH 1862
Clemmys bealei — BOULENGER 1889
Clemmys bealei — SCHMIDT 1927
Sacalia bealei — MCDOWELL 1964
Mauremys bealei — WERMUTH & MERTENS 1977
Clemmys bealei — XIANGKUI 1994
Sacalia bealei — SCHILDE 1999
Sacalia bealei — OBST 2003: 18
Sacalia bealei — TTWG 2014
Sacalia bealei — TTWG 2021 
DistributionS China (Guangdong, Fujian, Fukien, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Jiangxi, Hunan), N Vietnam

Type locality: "China".  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1947.3.4.33 and 1947.3.4.42. 
Diagnosis 
CommentPicture in Draco 13 (4): 92 (2003). Clemmys bealii var. quadriocellata SIEBENROCK 1903 has been elevated to species status (distribution not corrected for elevation). Not in Vietnam according to MCCORD & JOSEPH-OUNI 2004.

Type species: Cistuda bealei GRAY 1831: 71 is the type species of the genus Sacalia GRAY 1870: 35.

Distribution: erronesously reported from Hainan (fide Bu et al. 2023, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 22: 80-88).

Habitat: freshwater (Rivers, swamps)

Karyotype: The diploid chromosome number is 52: 9 pairs of
metacentric or submetacentric macrochromosomes, 5 pairs of telocentric or subtelocentric macrochromosomes, and 12 pairs of microchromosomes (Bickham 1975). 
EtymologyMost likely named after Thomas Beale (I775-1842), an Englishman who lived in Macao and Canton for 40 years from 1792. Gray only refers to “Mr. Beale” without any further details (Beolens et al. 2011). 
References
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