#1526 · 🦎 reptiles
Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle
🇳🇱 Chinese Streepschildpad ·Mauremys sinensis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Darren Fielder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jeremy Gatten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © sento11 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Charlotte Kirchner · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Grover J. Brown · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. United States:© Sandy Wolkenberg · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Florida, US:© Dick Snell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Argentina:© Valentín Vidal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Texas, US:© Nancy Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Chinese stripe-necked turtle ( Mauremys sinensis ) or golden thread turtle , is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,309 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1834 (192 years ago).
- Listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle
- Nederlands
- Chinese Streepschildpad
- scientific name
- Mauremys sinensis
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Geoemydidae
- IUCN Red List
- CR · critically endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 321
- sightings worldwide
- 7,309
- GBIF records in NL
- 6
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1834 by John Edward Gray
IUCN in Dutch: ernstig bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Geoemydidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 39950, Wikidata Q1124688, GBIF 2443244, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.