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Digimorph - Carettochelys insculpta (pig-nosed turtle) (747 words) |
 | Carettochelys insculpta is the sole living member of the Carettochelyidae, a group whose stratigraphic range extends as far back as the Mesozoic (Cretaceous of central Asia). |
| Cladistic analyses of both morphological and molecular characters place the Carettochelyidae as a close relative to the soft-shelled turtles of the Trionychidae (Meylan, 1987; Meylan and Gaffney, 1989; Shaffer et al., 1997). |
| Meylan, P. Peltochelys Dollo and the relationships among the genera of the Carettochelyidae (Testudines: Reptilia). |
| Carettochelydae and Chelidae Information Network (901 words) |
| The purpose of this paper is to explain all husbandry requirements of Carettochelys insculpta and thus help decrease the number of specimens that prematurely pass away. |
| It was originally described as a Pleurodire (Ramsay, 1886) and proposed to be a link between the freshwater turtles and the sea turtles (Ramsay, 1886). |
| The genus was assigned to a new family Carettochelyidae (Boulenger, 1887) and it was Baur (1891) who moved Carettochelys, and its family Carettochelyidae, to the Cryptodires and pointed out the similarity to the Trionychia. |
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