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Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle
Rafetus swinhoei
The Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) also known as the Red River giant softshell turtle, Shanghai softshell turtle, Swinhoe’s softshell turtle or speckled softshell turtle (Chinese: 斑鱉; Pinyin: bān bīe) is an extremely rare species of softshell turtle found in China. Only three living individuals are known, two in China and one in Vietnam, (a fourth having been reported dead in January 2016), and it is listed as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List....
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39569.