largest living freshwater turtle

On 19 jan 2016. the yangtze giant softshell  turtle  cu rua (great grandfather turtle ) died in hanoi vietnan suggtubgs  of  the venerable  turtle had been thought to bring good luck. The yangtze  softsheel turtie (r swihoel) measures more than 1m (3ft 3in) long and up to to 0.7 (2ft 3.5in) wide.The  heaviest recorded soecunen  tipped the scales at 250kg (551.lb) claims that cantors giant softsheel turtle (pelochelys cantorii  see above) is a larger freshwater turtle  are debatable as it seems likely that this species is a composite of  several separate undifferentiated species.