Order Testudines Wagler, 1830 - turtles
Status: extant
   Suborder Cryptodira Cope, 1868
  Status: extant
     Superfamily Trionychoidea Gray, 1825
    Status: extant
       Family Trionychidae Gray, 1825 - softshell turtles
      Status: extant
         Subfamily Trionychinae Gray, 1825
        Status: extant
           Genus Pelodiscus Fitzinger, 1835
          Status: extant
             1 Pelodiscus axenaria (Zhou, Zhang & Fang, 1991) - Hunan softshell turtle
            Status: extant
             2 Pelodiscus maackii (Brandt, 1857) - northern Chinese softshell turtle
            Status: extant
             3 Pelodiscus parviformis Tang, 1997 - lesser Chinese softshell turtle
            Status: extant
             4 Pelodiscus sinensis (Wiegmann, 1835) - Chinese softshell turtle
            Status: vulnerable (VU)