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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Trionychinae (Common Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Trionyx (African Softshell Turtles)
species..............Trionyx triunguis (African Softshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Forskål 1775 : ix
- Holotype
- Lost, according to R. G. Webb pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- "In Nilo rarior" [= Nile River]
- Original name
- Testudo triunguis
- Common Name
- African Softshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Southern Turkey south to Africa from Senegal to Angola to Somalia to Egypt
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957) and Meylan (1987).
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