Cycloderma
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| Cycloderma Temporal range: Miocene to recent,
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| Aubry's flapshell turtle (C. aubryi) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Trionychidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyclanorbinae |
| Genus: | Cycloderma W. Peters, 1854[1][2] |
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Cycloderma is a genus of softshell turtles in the subfamily Cyclanorbinae of the family Trionychidae. The genus is endemic to Africa.
Species
[edit | edit source]The genus Cycloderma contains the following extant species:
- Aubry's flapshell turtle – Cycloderma aubryi (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856)[1]
- Zambezi flapshell turtle – Cycloderma frenatum W. Peters, 1854[1]
Two extinct fossil species are also known: Cycloderma victoriae Andrews, 1914, from the early Miocene of Kenya; and Cycloderma debroinae Meylan et al., 1990, from the late Miocene to the Pliocene of Kenya.[3][4]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Cycloderma.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Rhodin et al. 2011, p. 000.204
- ^ a b Fritz & Havaš 2007, p. 313
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Peters W (1854). "Übersicht der auf seiner Reise nach Mossambique beobachteten Schilkröten ". Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlung der Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 215-216. (Cycloderma, new genus, p. 216). (in German and Latin).
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