Biology:Texas spiny softshell turtle
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Short description: Subspecies of turtle
| Apalone spinifera emoryi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Trionychidae |
| Genus: | Apalone |
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| Subspecies: | A. s. emoryi
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| Trinomial name | |
| Apalone spinifera emoryi (Agassiz, 1857)
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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
The subspecific name, emoryi, is in honor of United States Army officer and surveyor William Hemsley Emory.[2]
Geographic range
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.[3]
Diet
In the Texas portion of the Pecos River, A. s. emoryi were found to be primarily insectivorous, feeding on coleopterans, hymenopterans, odonates, and orthopterans.[4]
References
- ↑ NatureServe (1 December 2023). "Apalone spinifera emoryi". Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.105015/Apalone_spinifera_emoryi.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ "Apalone spinifera". The Reptiles Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Bullard, Sarah; Bassett, Lawrence; Mali, Ivana; Forstner, Michael (16 December 2023). "Diet of Apalone spinifera emoryi (Texas Spiny Softshell) and Trachemys scripta elegans (Red-eared Slider) in the Pecos River, Texas, USA". Herpetological Conservation and Biology 18 (3): 520–528. http://www.herpconbio.org/Volume_18/Issue_3/Bullard_etal_2023.pdf.
Further reading
- Agassiz L (1857). Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. I. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. li + 452 pp. (Aspidonectes emoryi, new species, pp. 407–408).
- Boulenger GA (1889). Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). New Edition. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). x + 311 pp. + Plates I–III. (Trionyx emoryi, p. 258).
- Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT 2016). Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 color plates, 207 figures. ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (Apalone spinifera emoryi, p. 233).
- Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status". Chelonian Research Monographs 5. Archived from the original on 2012-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131102839/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v4_2011.pdf.
- Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr (1982). Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. ISBN 0-307-13666-3 (paperback), ISBN 0-307-47009-1 (hardcover). (Trionyx spiniferus emoryi, pp. 32–33).
- Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. xiii + 533 pp., 56 color plates. ISBN 978-0-395-98272-3. (Trionyx spiniferus emoryi, p. 262).
External links
- Species Apalone spinifera at The Reptile Database
Template:Trionychidae Wikidata ☰ Q7708292 entry
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