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Cycloderma aubryi (DUMÉRIL, 1856)

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Higher TaxaTrionychidae (Cyclanorbinae), Trionychoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Aubry’s Soft-shelled Turtle
G: Rotrückige Klappenweichschildkröte 
SynonymCryptopus aubryi DUMÉRIL 1856
Heptathyra aubryi — GRAY 1860: 441
Cycloderma aubryi — DUMÉRIL 1860
Cycloderma aubryi — GÜNTHER 1896: 263
Cycloderma aubryi — WERMUTH & MERTENS 1977: 102
Cycloderma aubryi — ERNST & BARBOUR 1989: 113
Cycloderma aubryi — BROADLEY 1998
Cycloderma aubryi — TTWG 2014
Cycloderma aubryi — MARQUES et al. 2018
Cycloderma aubryi — TTWG 2021 
DistributionW/C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Cabinda, Gabon, Zaire, Central African Republic (likely), Cameroon (?), Angola (Cabinda)

Type locality: "Gabon"  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 8006 
Diagnosis 
CommentHabitat: freshwater (rivers and tributaries, lakes) 
EtymologyNamed after Charles Eugene Aubry-Lecomte (1821-1879), a French civil servant, and administrator in New Caledonia who also collected many animals and plants. 
References
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  • Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp.
  • Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here
  • Bour, R. 2008. The holotypes of Pentonyx gabonensis A. Duméril, 1856 and Cryptopodus aubryi A. Duméril, 1856. Emys 15 (3):41-44
  • Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
  • Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.H.A. 1856. Note sur les reptiles du Gabon. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, Paris, (2) 8: 369-377, 417–424, 460–470, 553–562 - get paper here
  • Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London
  • Gramentz, D. 1999. Zur Ökologie von Cycloderma aubryi (DUMERIL, 1856) in Gabun. Salamandra 35 (3): 147-164 - get paper here
  • Gramentz, D. 2001. Zum Wachstum und Verhalten von Cycloderma aubryi (DUMÉRIL, 1856). Sauria 23 (1): 17-22 - get paper here
  • Gramentz, Dieter 1998. Zur Morphologie und Merkmalsvariation von Cycloderma aubryi (Duméril, 1856). Salamandra 34 (4): 333-348 - get paper here
  • Gray, J.E. 1860. On the African Trionyces with hidden feet (Emyda). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 6: 440-441 - get paper here
  • 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. (6) 17: 261-267 - get paper here
  • Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
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  • Nieden, F. 1910. Die Reptilien (ausser der Schlangen) und Amphibien. In: Die Fauna der deutschen Kolonien. Reihe 1. Kamerun Heft 2. Berlin: 75pp.
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  • Pauwels, O.S.G.; William R. Branch and Marius Burger 2004. REPTILES OF LOANGO NATIONAL PARK, OGOOUÉ-MARITIME PROVINCE, SOUTH-WESTERN GABON. Hamadryad 29 (1): 115 – 127 - get paper here
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  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
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