• Source: Cyclanorbinae

Cyclanorbinae, also known commonly as the flapshell turtles, is a subfamily of softshell turtles in the family Trionychidae. The subfamily is native to Africa and Asia.




Taxonomy


Morphological evidence supports Cyclanorbinae being the sister group to the Plastomeninae, an extinct subfamily of softshell turtles that inhabited North America from the Cretaceous to the Eocene.




Genera


The subfamily Cyclanorbinae contains the following three extant genera.

Cyclanorbis Gray, 1845
Cycloderma W. Peters, 1854
Lissemys M.A. Smith, 1931
One extinct prehistoric genus is also known from fossil remains: Nemegtemys Danilov et al., 2014, from the Cretaceous of Mongolia.




Geographic range


Species in the genera Cyclanorbis and Cycloderma are found in Africa; species in the genus Lissemys are found in Asia.




References






Further reading


Lydekker R (1889). Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part III. Containing the Order Chelonia. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 239 pp. (Cyclanorbinae, new subfamily, p. x).

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Labi-labi (hewan)
• Cyclanorbinae
• Trionychidae
• Zambezi flapshell turtle
• Lissemys
• Cycloderma
• Senegal flapshell turtle
• Turtle classification
• Hutchemys
• Plastomeninae
• Rafetus