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Texas spiny softshell turtle

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Texas spiny softshell turtle

Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Trionychidae
Genus: Apalone
Species:
Subspecies:
A. s. emoryi
Trinomial name
Apalone spinifera emoryi
(Agassiz, 1857)
Synonyms[2]
List
  • Aspidonectes emoryi
    Agassiz, 1857
  • Trionyx emoryi
    Strauch, 1862
  • Aspidonectes emyda
    Gray, 1870
  • Aspidonectes georgii
    Gray, 1870
  • Platypeltis emoryii [sic]
    Baur, 1893 (ex errore)
  • Platypeltis emoryi
    Siebenrock, 1909
  • Amyda emoryi
    Stejneger & T. Barbour, 1917
  • Amyda emoryii
    Strecker, 1927
  • Amyda ferox emoryi
    Neill, 1951
  • Trionyx ferox emoryi
    Schmidt, 1953
  • Trionyx spinifer emoryi
    A. Schwartz, 1956
  • Trionyx spinifera emoryi
    Minton, 1959
  • Trionyx spiniferus emoryi
    Wermuth & Mertens, 1961
  • Trionyx spiniferus emoryir [sic]
    Honegger, 1982 (ex errore)
  • Apalone spinifera emoryi
    Ernst & R. Barbour, 1989
  • Apalone spinifera emoryi
    Stubbs, 1989

The Texas spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera emoryi) is a subspecies of the spiny softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae. The subspecies is native to the southwestern United States and adjacent northeastern Mexico.

Etymology

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The subspecific name, emoryi, is in honor of United States Army officer and surveyor William Hemsley Emory.[3]

Geographic range

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A. s. emoryi is found in western Texas and New Mexico, in the Rio Grande and its immediate tributaries, and in the Mexican states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas.[4]

References

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  1. ^ NatureServe (1 December 2023). "Apalone spinifera emoryi". NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 306–310. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. S2CID 87809001.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Apalone spinifera emoryi, p. 83).
  4. ^ "Apalone spinifera". The Reptiles Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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