Taxonavigation

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)

Synonymy

• 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., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-5323-5026-9). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

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