Biology:Zambezi flapshell turtle
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Short description: Species of turtle
| Zambezi flapshell turtle | |
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| Head of a Cycloderma frenatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Trionychidae |
| Genus: | Cycloderma |
| Species: | C. frenatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Cycloderma frenatum W. Peters, 1854
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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,[4] and mainly in the Zambezi basin.
Conservation status
C. frenatum is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
References
- ↑ 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6009/3088072. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ↑ "Appendices | CITES". https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php.
- ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 314–315. ISSN 1864-5755. http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ↑ "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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