Cycloderma

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| fossil_range = Miocene to recent, {{Geological range|23.03|0}}

| image = Cycloderma aubryi (29056524413).jpg

| image_caption = Aubry's flapshell turtle (C. aubryi)

| taxon = Cycloderma

| authority = W. Peters, 1854{{Harnvb|Rhodin|van Dijk|Iverson|Shaffer|Roger|2011|p=000.204}}{{Harnvb|Fritz|Havaš|2007|p=313}}

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| synonyms = *Heptathyra
{{small|Cope, 1860}}

Aspidochelys
{{small|Gray, 1860}}
Aspidochelis [sic]
{{small|Marshall, 1873 (ex errore)}}

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Cycloderma is a genus of softshell turtles in the subfamily Cyclanorbinae of the family Trionychidae. The genus is endemic to Africa.

Species

The genus Cycloderma contains the following extant species:

Aubry's flapshell turtle – Cycloderma aubryi {{small|(A.H.A. Duméril, 1856)}}
Zambezi flapshell turtle – Cycloderma frenatum {{small|W. Peters, 1854}}

Two extinct fossil species are also known: Cycloderma victoriae {{small|Andrews, 1914}}, from the early Miocene of Kenya; and Cycloderma debroinae {{small|Meylan et al., 1990}}, from the late Miocene to the Pliocene of Kenya.{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=351995|title=Fossilworks: Cycloderma victoriae|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=351998|title=Fossilworks: Cycloderma debroinae|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Cycloderma.

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Cycloderma

Species

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