Zambezi flapshell turtle

{{Short description|Species of turtle}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Cycloderma frenatum (29054672994).jpg

| image_caption = Head of a Cycloderma frenatum

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| 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 = frenatum

| authority = W. Peters, 1854

| synonyms = *Cycloderma frenatum
{{small|W. Peters, 1854}}

• Cyclanosteus frenatus
  {{small|— Gray, 1856}}
• Aspidochelys livingstonii
  {{small|Gray, 1860}}
• Heptathyra frenata
  {{small|— Gray, 1864}}
• Heptathyra livingstonii
  {{small|— Gray, 1864}}
• Gymnopus subplanus
  {{small|A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835}}
• Amyda subplana
  {{small|— Fitzinger, 1843}}
• Dogania subplana
  {{small|— Gray, 1844}}
• Trionyx frenatus
  {{small|— Gray, 1856}}
• Dogania guentheri
  {{small|Gray, 1862}}
• Trionyx guentheri
  {{small|— Günther, 1864}}
• Potamochelys frenatus
  {{small|— Gray, 1864}}

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite journal | journal = Vertebrate Zoology | title = Checklist of Chelonians of the World | year = 2007 | first1 = Uwe | last1 = Fritz | first2 = Peter | last2 = Havaš | volume = 57 | issue = 2 | pages = 314–315 | issn = 1864-5755 | url = http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110501060224/http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf | archive-date = 2011-05-01| url-status = dead |access-date = 29 May 2012 }}

|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=van Dijk, P.P. |date=2016 |title=Cycloderma frenatum |volume=2016 |page=e.T6009A3088072 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6009A3088072.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

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The Zambezi flapshell turtle (Cycloderma frenatum) is a species of softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae). Within its family, C. frenatum belongs to the smaller, and exclusively Old World, subfamily Cyclanorbinae.