Cyclanorbinae

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Cyclanorbinae
Temporal range:
Ma
Indian flapshell turtle
Lissemys punctata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Trionychidae
Subfamily: Cyclanorbinae
Lydekker, 1889

Cyclanorbinae, also known

turtles in the family Trionychidae. The subfamily is native to Africa and Asia
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Taxonomy

Morphological evidence supports Cyclanorbinae being the sister group to the Plastomeninae, an extinct subfamily of softshell turtles that inhabited North America from the Cretaceous to the Eocene.[1][2]

Genera

The subfamily Cyclanorbinae contains the following three extant genera.[3]

One extinct prehistoric genus is also known from fossil remains: Nemegtemys Danilov et al., 2014, from the Cretaceous of Mongolia.[4]

Geographic range

Species in the genera Cyclanorbis and Cycloderma are found in Africa; species in the genus Lissemys are found in Asia.[5]

References

  1. S2CID 85505337
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  2. S2CID 246803273
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  3. ^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, Anders G.J.; Parham, James F.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.) (2009)."Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy and Synonymy, 2009 Update". Archived 2016-04-06 at the Wayback Machine Chelonian Research Monographs (5): 000.39-000.84. (Cyclanorbinae, pp. 000.55-000.56).
  4. ^ "Fossilworks: Nemegtemys ". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Cyclanorbinae". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Lydekker R (1889). Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part III. Containing the Order Chelonia. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 239 pp. (Cyclanorbinae, new subfamily, p. x).
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