Trionyx
Trionyx Temporal range: Early Cretaceous to recent,
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T. triunguis, the only extant species | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Trionychidae |
Subfamily: | Trionychinae |
Genus: | Trionyx Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809 |
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Trionyx is a genus of softshell turtles belonging to the family Trionychidae. In the past many species in the family were classified in this genus, but today T. triunguis, the African or Nile softshell turtle, is the only extant softshell still classified as Trionyx. The other species still assigned to this genus are only known from fossils. T. triunguis is a relatively large, aquatic piscivore.
Species[]
- Trionyx triunguis (Forsskål, 1775) – African or Nile softshell turtle
- † Delfortrie,1869 (nomen dubium)[2]
- † [3]
- † Lydekker, 1889 (nomen dubium)[2]
- † Cope, 1869-1870 (nomen dubium)[4]
- † [5]
- † [3]
- † [3]
- † Cope, 1869 (nomen dubium)[4]
- † Trionyx ikoviensis
- † Trionyx kansaiensis
- † Okazaki and Yoshida, 1977
- † Gray, 1831 (nomen dubium)[2]
- † Holman, 1982 (nomen dubium)[4]
- † Gilmore, 1931 (nomen dubium)[2]
- † [3]
† = extinct
References[]
- ^ "Trionyx". FossilWorks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ a b c d Georgalis, Georgios L.; Joyce, Walter G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Old World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58 (1): 115–208.
- ^ a b c d Igor G. Danilov; Ren Hirayama; Vladimir B. Sukhanov; Shigeru Suzuki; Mahito Watabe; Natasha S. Vitek (2014). "Cretaceous soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) of Mongolia: new diversity, records and a revision". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (7): 799–832. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.847870.
- ^ a b c Vitek, Natasha S.; Joyce, Walter G. (2015). "A Review of the Fossil Record of New World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
- ^ Natasha S. Vitek; Igor G. Danilov (2014). "Soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan". Cretaceous Research. 49: 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.01.004. hdl:2152/41076.
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Categories:
- Trionyx
- Turtle genera
- Reptile genera with one living species
- Hell Creek fauna
- Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire