soft-shelled turtle
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Voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin;
Can inflict painful bites (synset 101674673)is a type of: turtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimmingsubtypes:- spiny softshell, trionyx spiniferus - river turtle of western United States with a warty shell; prefers quiet water
- smooth softshell, trionyx muticus - river turtle of Mississippi basin; prefers running water
belongs to: family trionychidae, trionychidae - soft-shelled turtlessame as: pancake turtle
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