Cycloderma frenatum

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Division: Pan-Testudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira
Superfamilia: Trionychoidea

Familia: Trionychidae
Subfamilia: Cyclanorbinae
Genus: Cycloderma
Species: Cycloderma frenatum
Name

Cycloderma frenatum |Peters 1854:216

Syntypes: ZMB 47, 49, 50, 4815, 8243, 8432

Type locality: "im fluminibus Zambeze et Licuare...Tette et Sena...in terra Boror," Zambezi River, Mozambique. Restricted to “Sambesi bei Tete” by lectotype designation (Fritz et al. 1994)
Synonyms

Cycloderma frenatum Peters 1854:216
Aspidochelys livingstonii Gray 1860:69
Aspidochelys livingstonii Gray 1860:441
Cycloderma frenatum Wermuth & Mertens 1977:102
Cycloderma frenatum TTWG 2014

References

Peters, W.C.H. 1854. Übersicht der auf seiner Reise nach Mossambique beobachteten Schildkröten. Monatsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 215–216.
Gray, J.E. 1860. Description of a soft tortoise (Aspidochelys livingstonii) from the Zambesi, sent to the British Museum by Dr. Livingstone. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 6: 68–69
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. Paywall. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Vernacular names
čeština: Kožitka uzdičková
English: Zambezi flapshell turtle

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.
Plastron with the peculiar hindleg flaps
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. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
"Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 314–315. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

"Cycloderma frenatum ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.