Yellow-headed box turtle

{{Short description|Species of turtle}}

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| image = Auro.jpg

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| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Asian Turtle Trade Working Group | title = Cuora aurocapitata | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2000 | page = e.T5959A97350211 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2000 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/5959/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T5959A11956075.en | access-date = 9 January 2018| doi-access = free }} Listed as Critically Endangered (CR A1d+2d)

| status2 = CITES_A2

| status2_system = CITES

| status2_ref = {{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}

| genus = Cuora

| species = aurocapitata

| authority = Luo & Zong, 1988Luo, B. & Y. Zong. (1988). A new species of Cuora - Cuora aurocapitata. - Acta Herpetologica Sinica, Beijing, 3: 13-16 (in Chinese).

| synonyms =

• Cuora aurocapitata Luo & Zhong, 1988
• Cuora aureocapitata Patterson, 1994 (ex errore)
• Cuora pani aurocapitata Artner, 2003
• Pyxiclemmys aurocapitata Vetter, 2006
• Pyxiclemmys pani aurocapitata Vetter, 2006

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite journal | journal = Vertebrate Zoology | title = Checklist of Chelonians of the World | year = 2007 | author = Fritz Uwe |author2=Peter Havaš | volume = 57 | issue = 2 | pages = 215 | doi = 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 | doi-access = free }}

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The yellow-headed box turtle or golden-headed box turtle (Cuora aurocapitata) is a proposed species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani aurocapitata).

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This turtle is endemic to the central Chinese Anhui province.Blanck, T. & M. Tang (2005). Ein neuer Fundort von Cuora pani SONG, 1984 mit Diskussion über den taxonomischen Status von Cuora pani und Cuora aurocapitata. Sacalia. 7(3):16-37Blanck, T. & T. Kremser (2007). Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung von Cuora pani aurocapitata sowie neue Fundortnachweise. Teil I. Marginata. 13(4):52-56Blanck, T. & T. Kremser (2007). Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung von Cuora pani aurocapitata sowie neue Fundortnachweise. Teil II. Marginata. 14(4):50-52 It is found in Nanling County, Yi County, Guangde County, and Jing County.