Biology:Southwestern pond turtle

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Short description: Species of turtle

Southwestern pond turtle
Western pond turtle in the Mojave Desert.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Actinemys
Species:
A. pallida
Binomial name
Actinemys pallida
(Seeliger, 1945)

Actinemys pallida, the southwestern pond turtle,[1] is an aquatic turtle of the genus Actinemys in the family Emydidae.[2] It can be found in bodies of water in southern California and Baja California.[3]

References

  1. "Actinemys pallida". NCBI taxonomy database. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=1485138. Retrieved 2021-08-13. 
  2. Reptile database. org
  3. Spinks, Phillip Q.; Thomson, Robert C.; Shaffer, Bradley (2014-03-26). "The advantages of going large: genome-wide SNPs clarify the complex population history and systematics of the threatened western pond turtle". Molecular Ecology 23 (9): 2228–2241. doi:10.1111/mec.12736. PMID 24673803. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12736. Retrieved 2021-08-13. "USA (S California), Mexico (N Baja California); central coast range south of the San Francisco Bay area to the species’ southern range boundary, including the Mojave River (Spinks et al. 2014).". 

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