Description: English: The Yangtze Giant Turtle, Oscaria swinhoei; now known as Rafetus swinhoei. This is the specimen received by Gray from Robert Swinhoe,. Date: 1873. Source: Gray, J. E. "Notes on Chinese Mud-Tortoises..", Annals Mag of Nat Hist, ser 4, vol. XII, 1873. Plate V: https://archive.org/stream/s4annalsmagazine12londuoft#page/n527/mode/2up. Author: en:John Edward Gray and/or G.H. Ford.
Description: Photo from Wikimedia Commons courtesy of Dûrzan Cîrano shared under Creative Commons licensing: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en The United States and eight African nations have submitted a proposal to include six species of African and Middle Eastern softshell turtles in Appendix II of CITES. Date: 14 September 2016, 14:19. Source: Rafetus euphraticus. Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters.
