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Species of turtle

Zambezi flapshell turtle
Head of a Cycloderma frenatum
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Trionychidae
Genus: Cycloderma
Species: C. frenatum
Binomial name
Cycloderma frenatum
W. Peters, 1854
Synonyms
  • Cycloderma frenatum
    W. Peters, 1854
  • Cyclanosteus frenatus
    Gray, 1856
  • Aspidochelys livingstonii
    Gray, 1860
  • Heptathyra frenata
    — Gray, 1864
  • Heptathyra livingstonii
    — Gray, 1864
  • Gymnopus subplanus
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Amyda subplana
    Fitzinger, 1843
  • Dogania subplana
    — Gray, 1844
  • Trionyx frenatus
    — Gray, 1856
  • Dogania guentheri
    Gray, 1862
  • Trionyx guentheri
    Günther, 1864
  • Potamochelys frenatus
    — Gray, 1864

The Zambezi flapshell turtle (Cycloderma frenatum) is a species of softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae). Within its family, C. frenatum belongs to the smaller, and exclusively Old World, subfamily Cyclanorbinae.

Geographic range

C. frenatum is found in southeastern Africa, in the countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zanzibar, and Zimbabwe, and mainly in the Zambezi basin.

Conservation status

C. frenatum is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

Plastron with the peculiar hindleg flaps

References

  1. van Dijk, P.P. (2016). "Cycloderma frenatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T6009A3088072. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6009A3088072.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 314–315. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  4. "Cycloderma frenatum ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Peters W (1854). "Übersicht der auf seiner Reise nach Mossambique beobachteten Schildkröten ". Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlung der Königlich Preuissische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 215–216. (Cycloderma frenatum, new species, p. 216). (in German and Latin).
Trionychidae family
Genera
Species of the Trionychidae family
Amyda
Apalone
Axestemys
Chitra
Cyclanorbis
Cycloderma
Dogania
Gilmoremys
Hutchemys
Khunnuchelys
Lissemys
Nilssonia
Palaeoamyda
Palea
Pelochelys
Pelodiscus
Rafetus
Trionyx
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. †=extinct.
Testudines
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
Taxon identifiers
Cycloderma frenatum
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