An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys
Author
Kirchhof, Sebastian
Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES & Museum fUr Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, GERMANY 3 Herpetology Section, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 40658 - 00100, Nairobi, KENYA
Author
Wasonga, Victor
Author
Mazuch, Tomáš
Author
Spawls, Stephen
Author
Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta
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Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
2023
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2023-06-01
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10.5281/zenodo.12761910
cda73657-e098-4f17-922e-91d2c5b45fca
1525-9153
12761910
Trionyx triunguis
(Forskål, 1775)
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
).