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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Trionychidae
Bibliography of the genus Trionyx
Biodiversity of the family Trionychidae








Genus
Trionyx

African Softshell Turtle

Afrikanische Weichschildkröte

Afrikansk Blødskildpadde, Afrikansk Trekloskildpadde

1809 Trionyx Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire (type species: Testudo triunguis Forskål 1775)
1830 Aspidonectes Wagler (type species: Trionyx aegyptiacus Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire 1809; syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)
1835 Gymnopus Dumeril & Bibron [substitute name for Aspidonectes Wagler 1830; not Gymnopus Brookes 1828 (Aves)] (syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)
1844 Tyrse Gray (type species: Trionyx niloticus Gray 1831; syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)
1869 Fordia Gray (type species: Fordia africana Gray 1869; syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)

Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Previously included the species now placed in the genera Amyda, Apalone, Dogania, Nilssonia, Palea, Pelochelys, Pelodiscus, and Rafetus.
Distribution: As for the single species.

Trionyx triunguis

African Softshell Turtle, Nile Softshell Turtle

Afrikanische Weichschildkröte, Dreiklauen-Weichschildkröte, Afrikanischer Dreiklauer

Afrikansk Blødskildpadde, Afrikansk Trekloskildpadde

1775 Testudo triunguis Forskål
Amyda triunguis Oken 1816
Trionyx triunguis Peters 1876
Pelodiscus triunguis Baur 1893
Amyda triunguis triunguis Mertens & Wermuth 1955
1798 Testudo striata Suchow [in part; substitute name for Testudo cartilaginea Boddaert 1770 and Testudo triunguis Forsskål 1775] (Fritz & Havas 2006)
1809 Trionyx egyptiacus Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire (Fritz & Havas 2006)
Trionyx aegyptiacus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 [emendation]
Aspidonectes aegyptiacus Wagler 1830
Gymnopus aegyptiacus Duméril & Bibron 1835
1831 Trionyx niloticus Gray [substitute name for Testudo triunguis Forsskål 1775] (Fritz & Havas 2006)
Tyrse nilotica Gray 1844
1835 Trionyx labiatus Fitzinger (Fritz & Havas 2006)
1844 Trionyx mortoni Hallowell (Fritz & Havas 2006)
1860 Aspidonectes aspilus Cope (Fritz & Havas 2006)
Gymnopus aspilus Rochebrune 1884
1869 Fordia africana Gray (Fritz & Havas 2006)
1948 Trionyx triunguis rudolfianus Deraniyagala (Fritz & Havas 2006)
Amyda triunguis rudolfianus Mertens & Wermuth 1955

Remarks: A single record from Greece, off the island of Kos (Valakos, Pafilis, Sotiropoulos, Lymberakis, Maragou & Foufopoulos 2008).
Distribution: Angola (incl. Cabinda), Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Egypt (incl. Sinai), Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece (incl. Aegean Islands), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Turkey, Uganda.