🦎Yangtze giant softshell turtle
The Yangtze giant softshell turtle, also commonly known as the Red River giant softshell turtle, the Shanghai softshell turtle, the speckled softshell turtle, and Swinhoe's softshell turtle, is a critically endangered species of turtle in the family Trionychidae. It is one of the largest living freshwater turtle species. Native to eastern and southern China and northern Vietnam, the species has a known population of only two individuals, and the absence of fertile females has rendered it functionally extinct.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 79 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Yangtze giant softshell turtle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass79 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietOmnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length1 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l79 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Yangtze giant softshell turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyTrionychidae
- ›genusRafetus
- ›speciesRafetus swinhoei
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyTrionychia
- familyTrionychidae
- genusRafetus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyTrionychia
- familyTrionychidae
- genusRafetus
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