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Nature 423, 219-220 (15 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423219a
Conservation biology: Mock turtles
Rex Dalton1
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Abstract
One reptile enthusiast, working with a handful of academics, has described a clutch of new Asian turtle species since the late 1980s. But are they what they seem? Rex Dalton reports on a herpetological débâcle.
They began emerging in the late 1980s: new species of freshwater and land turtles from the waterways and forests of China and Southeast Asia. By the late 1990s, more than a dozen had been described.
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