Zambezi flapshell turtle

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.

Zambezi flapshell turtle
Head of a Cycloderma frenatum
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
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[3]
  • 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

Geographic range

C. frenatum is found in southeastern Africa, in the countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zanzibar, and Zimbabwe,[4] 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". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 314–315. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. 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).
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