Cyclemys pulchristiata, commonly known as the Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle, is a species of Asian leaf turtle

Cyclemys

Cyclemys, commonly referred to as Asian leaf turtles, is a genus of freshwater turtles from the family Geoemydidae. The genus occurs throughout Southeast and South Asia and currently contains seven species....

 found in Southern Indochina

Indochina

The Indochinese peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly southwest of China, and east of India. The name has its origins in the French, Indochine, as a combination of the names of "China" and "India", and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory...

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Description

Carapace is reddish brown, ovoid to elongated, with wide radiating black lines or large black specks. Plastron is mostly yellow and may have short fat lines, specks, or be uniformly colored. The head is speckled with a yellow throat. The neck is striped. Hatchlings have wide head and neck stripes and a yellow plastron. The bridge is predominantly yellow with black stripes or entirely black. It is mostly morphologically indistinguishable from the Western black-bridged leaf turtle

Western black-bridged leaf turtle

Cyclemys atripons, commonly known as the Western black-bridged leaf turtle, is a species of Asian leaf turtle found in Southern Indochina.-Description:...

, C. atripons, requiring genetic sampling to confidently identify. Some authorities consider this species to be a junior synonym to or a subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

of C. atripons.