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Original
Description |
LeSueur 1827 : 258 |
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Type
Locality |
"Newharmony, sur le Wabash" [= New Harmony, Wabash River, Posey County, Indiana, USA] |
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Syntypes |
(8 specimens) MNHN 1949; MNHN 6957; MNHN 8807; MNHN 8808 (designated lectotype by Webb 1962:491); MNHN 8809; MNHN 8810; MNHN 8811; MNHN 8812; MNHN 1949 and 6957 may be syntypes of Trionyx ocellatus LeSueur 1827:261 [= Trionyx spiniferus LeSueur]) according to R. G. Webb. |
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Original name |
Trionyx spiniferus |
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Common
name |
Spiny Softshell Turtle |
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Distribution |
Southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada to north Florida, Montana and New Mexico, USA, and Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, Mexico; introduced into the Colorado and Gila river drainages of southwestern USA and adjacent Mexico and several localities along Pacific coast of California (Stebbins, 1985) |
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Comments |
Synonymy includes Trionyx ater Webb and Legler (1960:21) according to Smith and Smith (1979). Reviewed by Webb (1973a; as Trionyx ater), Webb (1973d; as Trionyx spiniferus), Smith and Smith (1979; in Mexico, as Trionyx spiniferus), and Meylan (1987). Subgenus Apalone according to Meylan (1987:92). |
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