EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Cycloderma frenatum
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Cyclanorbinae (Flapshell Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Cycloderma (Central African Flapshell Turtles)
species..............Cycloderma frenatum (Zambezi Flapshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Peters 1854 : 216
- Syntypes
- (6 specimens) ZMB 47; ZMB 49; ZMB 50; ZMB 4815; ZMB 8243; ZMB 8432
- Type Locality
- "im fluminibus Zambeze et Licuare ... Tette et Sena..., in terra Boror" [Zambesi River, Mozambique]
- Original name
- Cycloderma frenatum
- Common Name
- Zambezi Flapshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Rufiji river basin in Tanzania to the Save river basin in Mozambique and southeastern Zimbabwe
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957) and Meylan (1987).
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