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Leucocephalon yuwonoi, Sulawesi Forest Turtle

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Assessment by: Asian Turtle Trade Working Group

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Taxonomy
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family

Animalia Chordata Reptilia Testudines Geoemydidae

Taxon Name:  Leucocephalon yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995)

Synonym(s):
• Geoemyda yuwonoi McCord, Iverson & Boeadi, 1995
• Heosemys yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson and Boeadi, 1995)

Common Name(s):
• English: Sulawesi Forest Turtle
Taxonomic Notes:
Was treated under the generic name Geomyda in the 1996 IUCN Red List. Genus was changed to
Heosemys in the 2000 IUCN Red List. Now reassigned to a new monotypic genus, Leucocephalon (A.
Rhodin, pers comm.)

Assessment Information
Red List Category & Criteria: Critically Endangered A1cd+2cd ver 2.3

Year Published: 2000

Date Assessed: June 30, 2000

Annotations: Needs Updating

Previously Published Red List Assessments

1996 – Data Deficient (DD)

Geographic Range
Country Occurrence:
Native: Indonesia

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Habitat and Ecology
Systems:  Terrestrial, Freshwater

Threats (see Appendix for additional information)

Trade in the species in East Asian markets, discovered among shipments in the early 1990s, peaked at an
estimated annual level of 2,000–3,000 animals in 1998 and collapsed to 100 animals in 1999.

Conservation Actions (see Appendix for additional information)

It is listed on CITES Appendix II.

Credits
Assessor(s): Asian Turtle Trade Working Group

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

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Bibliography
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378.
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Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and
Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 2016. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016-1. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org.
(Accessed: 30 June 2016).

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
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Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.

Citation
Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Leucocephalon yuwonoi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened
Species 2000: e.T40761A97369570.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T40761A10363014.en

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Threats
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Threat Timing Scope Severity Impact Score

5. Biological resource use -> 5.4. Fishing & harvesting Ongoing - - -

aquatic resources -> 5.4.1. Intentional use:
(subsistence/small scale) [harvest]
Stresses: 2. Species Stresses -> 2.1. Species mortality

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Conservation Actions in Place

(http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes)

Conservation Actions in Place

In-Place Education

Included in international legislation: Yes

Subject to any international management/trade controls: Yes

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Errata
Errata reason: An errata assessment is required to generate a revised PDF without the range map
which had been included in error; no range map was available when this assessment
was originally published.

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