Trionyx triunguis (Forskål, 1775)

Kirchhof, Sebastian, Wasonga, Victor, Mazuch, Tomáš, Spawls, Stephen & Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta, 2023, An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 324) 17 (1 / 2), pp. 1-18 : 5

publication ID	1525-9153
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03859B60-CA7E-CD62-986E-FEB23059FD16
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scientific name	Trionyx triunguis (Forskål, 1775)
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Trionyx triunguis (Forskål, 1775) View in CoL

IUCN Red List: Vulnerable. CITES App. II

Vouchers: None

Localities: KF (B)

Remarks: The carapace of one dead individual of this soft-shell turtle was found about 900 m from the shore of Lake Turkana at Koobi Fora. These turtles are still eaten by the local people around Lake Turkana ( V. Wasonga, pers. obs.; Spawls et al. 2018), so we suspect the locality does not reflect the individual’s actual habitat. The Nile Soft-shelled Turtle inhabits permanent lakes, dams, and rivers, and is known to enter the sea, but it does not live in any other Kenyan lake in the Great Rift Valley other than Lake Turkana, because none of the other rivers were ever connected to the Nile system ( Spawls et al. 2018).