Rafetus

Taxobox
name = Rafetus
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
familia = Trionychidae
genus = "Rafetus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "2, see text"

"Rafetus" is a genus of highly endangered softshell turtles in the Trionychidae family. It contains the following species:
* Euphrates Softshell Turtle ("Rafetus euphraticus")
* Shanghai soft-shell turtle ("Rafetus swinhoei")

"Rafetus leloii" (the Hoan Kiem turtle) is a proposed species that is no longer regarded as a valid taxon; it is now considered a junior synonym of "Rafetus swinhoei". [Farkas, B and Webb, R.G. 2003. "Rafetus leloii Hà Dinh Dúc, 2000—an invalid species of softshell turtle from Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi, Vietnam (Reptilia, Testudines, Trionychidae)." Zool. Abhandl. (Dresden), 53: 107-112.]

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