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Aubry's flapshell turtle

{{Short description|Species of turtle}}

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| image = Cycloderma aubryi (29056524413).jpg

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Chirio, L. |author2=Diagne, T. |author3=Pauwels, O.S.G. |date=2017 |title=Cycloderma aubryi |volume=2017 |page=e.T163448A1009393 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T163448A1009393.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| status2 = CITES_A2

| status2_system = CITES

| status2_ref = {{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}

| genus = Cycloderma

| species = aubryi

| authority = (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856){{cite journal|url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v3_2010.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2010 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=5 |date=2010-12-14 |author1=Rhodin, Anders G.J. |author2=van Dijk, Peter Paul |author3=Iverson, John B. |author4=Shaffer, H. Bradley |page=000.124 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125632/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v3_2010.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-17 |doi=10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v3.2010 |url-status=live }}

| synonyms = *Cryptopus aubryi
{{small|A.H.A. Duméril, 1856}}

  • Cryptopodus aubryi
    {{small|— A.H.A. Duméril, 1856}}
  • Cycloderma aubryi
    {{small|— A.H.A. Duméril, 1860}}
  • Heptathyra aubryi
    {{small|— Cope, 1860}}

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite journal|journal=Vertebrate Zoology|title=Checklist of Chelonians of the World|year=2007|author=Fritz, Uwe|author2=Havaš, Peter|volume=57|issue=2|pages=313–314|issn=1864-5755 |url=http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501060224/http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf|archivedate=2011-05-01|accessdate=29 May 2012|url-status=dead}}

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Aubry's flapshell turtle (Cycloderma aubryi)[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Cycloderma_aubryi.html Animaldiversity.umich.edu] is a species of softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae. The species is endemic to Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, aubryi, is in honor of Charles Eugène Aubry-Lecomte (1821–1879), who was a French civil servant and an amateur naturalist.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Cycloderma aubryi, p. 12).

Geographic range

C. aubryi is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, the Cabinda Province of Angola and likely in the Central African Republic.[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Cycloderma&species=aubryi JCVI.org]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of C. aubryi are forest and freshwater wetlands, at altitudes up to {{convert|500|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Diet

Adults of C. aubryi prey upon crabs, crayfish, and fish. Juveniles may also eat insects.

Conservation status

In 2017, the IUCN listed C. aubryi as vulnerable.

References

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Further reading

  • Bour R (2008). "The holotypes of Pentonyx gabonensis A. Duméril, 1856 and Cryptopodus aubryi A. Duméril, 1856". Emys 15 (3): 41–44.
  • Broadley DG (1998). "The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)". In: Schmidt KP, Noble GK (1998). Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, pp. 780.
  • Chirio, Laurent; Ineich, Ivan (2006). "Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic". African Journal of Herpetology 55 (1): 23–59.
  • Duméril AHA (1856). "Note sur les reptiles du Gabon ". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, Paris [Second Series] 8 : 369–377, 417–424, 460–470, 553–562. (in French).
  • Ernst CH, Barbour RW (1989). Turtles of the World. London and Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Gramentz, Dieter (1998). "Zur Morphologie und Merkmalsvariation von Cycloderma aubryi. (Duméril, 1856) ". Salamandra 34 (4): 333–348. (in German).
  • Gray JE (1860). "On the African Trionyces with hidden feet (Emyda)". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6 (3): 440–441.
  • Günther A (1896). "Report on a collection of reptiles and fishes made by Miss M. H. Kingsley during her travels on the Ogowe river and in Old Calabar". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17 (6): 261–267.
  • McCord WP, Joseph-Ouni M (2003). "Chelonian Illustrations #6. Flapshell and Giant Asian Softshell Turtles". Reptilia (Great Britain) (26): 59–64.
  • Meylan PA(1987). "The phylogenetic relationships of soft-shelled turtles (Family Trionychidae)". Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 186 (1): 1–101.
  • Nieden F (1910). "Die Reptilien (ausser der Schlangen) und Amphibien ". In: Die Fauna der deutschen Kolonien. Reihe 1. Kamerun Heft 2. Berlin. pp. 75. (in German).
  • Pauwels OSG, Vandeweghe JP (2008). Les reptiles du Gabon. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. 272 pp. (in French).
  • Pauwels OSG; Branch, William R.; Burger, Marius (2004). "Reptiles of Loango National Park, OGOOUÉ-MARITIME PROVINCE, SOUTH-WESTERN GABON". Hamadryad 29 (1): 115–127.
  • Tornier G (1902). "Die Crocodile, Schildkröten und Eidechsen in Kamerun ". Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst. 15 (6): 663–677. (in German).
  • Valverde J (2007). "Weichschildkröten ". Reptilia (Münster) 12 (6): 16–23. (in German).

External links

  • {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040218061638/http://www.chelonia.org/CyclodermaaubryiCH1.jpg Photo at Chelonia.org]}}
  • [http://www.australianfreshwaterturtles.com.au/forum/showthread.php?12926-Aubry-s-Flapshell-Turtle-%28Cycloderma-aubryi%29 Photos at Australian freshwater turtles.com.au]

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Category:Reptiles described in 1854

Category:Taxa named by Auguste Duméril

Category:Cycloderma