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    Species Accepted

    Trionyx triunguis (Forskål, 1775)

    African Soft-shelled Turtle

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      24 results
      African Soft-shelled Turtle English
      African Softshell Turtle English
      Afrikaanse Weekschildpad Dutch
      Afrikanische Weichschildkröte German
      Afrikansk Blødskildpadde Danish
      Nil-Weichschildkröte German
      Nile Soft-shelled Turtle English
      Nile Softshell Turtle English
      Nilweichschildkröte German
      Tartaruga-de-casco-mole-africana Portuguese

      Treatments

      4 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      92 results
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      Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer. (2018). Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II).
      Baur, & Markus. (2021). Seit über 25 Jahren „zwischen allen Stühlen“ – die Reptilienauffangstation in München. Elaphe 2021 (3): 20-29.
      Iverson, J. B. (1992). A revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Richmond, Indiana, Privately Published, 363 Pp.
      Observation.org contributors. 2018. "Download species lists". Observation.org, Nature observations form around the world. est. 2008. Hisko de Vries (man). Observation International Foundation. https://observation.org/download.php?lang=en&local=xx
      McGovern, P., & Luiselli, L. (2023). Knowledge gaps and conservation priorities for west African chelonians,. Amphibia-Reptilia 44 (2): 121-137.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Hraoui-Bloquet, S.; Sadek, R.A.; Sindaco, R. & Venchi, A. (2002). The herpetofauna of Lebanon: new data on distribution. Zoology in the Middle East 27: 35-46.
      Kasparek, M., & Kinzelbach, R. (1991). Distribution and bionomics of the Nile soft-shelled turtle, Trionyx triunguis, in the eastern Mediterranean. Zeitschrift Fur Angewandte Zool. 78(2): 139-159.
      Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. (2002). A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 Pp. [Reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147].

      Citation

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