Chinese Box Turtle

Chinese Box Turtle are fantastic captive bred super colorful Chinese box turtles for sale.  The Chinese Box turtle for sale is one of the most sought after box turtles for sale online in the United States and abroad and is also known for being one of the more colorful species of box turtle for sale in the world.   Average size is 4.5-5.5″”.

Cistoclemmys flavomarginata has been given a variety of common names including Chinese box turtle, yellow-margined box turtle, golden-headed turtle and snake-eating turtle. Its generic status has been fluid. In his original 1863 description, John Edward Gray assigned the species to Cistoclemmys. Later workers moved it to Cyclemys in the early 20^th century, and then on into the genus Cuora in the 1930’s. More recently, Roger Bour (1980) and Ren Hirayama (1983) presented extensive morphological evidence demonstrating that flavomarginata and other turtles in the Cistoclemmys clade are generically distinct from the rest of Cuora. Although criticized (McCord and Iverson, 1991), this hypothesis has never been formally disproved and the revived name Cistoclemmys flavomarginata has slowly gained in acceptance over the years (e.g. Iverson, 1985; Gaffney and Meylan, 1988).

The species occurs in southern China and various offshore islands. It has been divided into 3 poorly defined subspecies (McCord and Iverson, 1991): the nominate taxon Cistoclemmys flavomarginata flavomarginata from Taiwan; C. f. sinensis, a weakly distinguished taxon from southern mainland China; and C. f. evelynae from the Ryukyu Islands that has also been proposed as a separate species (as Cuora evelynae). All the animals discussed in this article are indistinguishable from C. f. flavomarginata as are most specimens seen in the U.S.