Cycloderma

''Cycloderma'' is a genus of softshell turtles in the subfamily Cyclanorbinae of the Family (biology), family Trionychidae. The genus is Endemism, endemic to Africa.

Species

The genus ''Cycloderma'' contains the following extant species:
*Aubry's flapshell turtle – ''Cycloderma aubryi''
*Zambezi flapshell turtle – ''Cycloderma frenatum''

Two Extinction, extinct fossil species are also known: ''Cycloderma victoriae'' , from the early Miocene of Kenya; and ''Cycloderma debroinae'' , from the late Miocene to the Pliocene of Kenya.

''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Cycloderma''.

References

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Further reading

*Wilhelm Peters, 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).

Cycloderma,
Turtle genera
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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