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title: "Sunda Box Turtle"
description: "Cuora couro — Reptiles. The Amboina box turtle or Southeast Asian box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) is a species of Asian box turtle widely distributed across Southeast Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/sunda-box-turtle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sunda Box Turtle

> Cuora couro — Reptiles. The Amboina box turtle or Southeast Asian box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) is a species of Asian box turtle widely distributed across Southeast Asia.

- Scientific name: *Cuora couro*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptiles)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos y ríos)
- iNaturalist observations: 1378
- iNaturalist taxon: [1545827](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1545827)

## Names

- en: Sunda Box Turtle
- de: Sunda-Scharnierschildkröte

## Countries with the most observations

MY (411), TH (355), SG (196), ID (160), BN (20), PH (15), VN (6), MM (3)

## Summary

The Amboina box turtle or Southeast Asian box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) is a species of Asian box turtle widely distributed across Southeast Asia. It is native to the Asian mainland from northeast India, through Bangladesh, Burma and Thailand, across Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia. It is also found on the archipelagos of Indonesia and the Philippines.
The type locality is "Amboine" (or "Amboina") Island, today Ambon Island in Indonesia.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amboina_box_turtle

## Photo

![Sunda Box Turtle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sunda-box-turtle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Olly Morgan · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185404050

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sunda-box-turtle?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).