EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Apalone ferox
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Trionychinae (Common Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Apalone (North American Softshell Turtles)
species..............Apalone ferox (Florida Softshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Schneider 1783 : 330
- Holotype
- BMNH 1947.3.6.17 (formerly 53A)
- Type Locality
- Not stated; "Savannah and Altamaha rivers and ... rivers in east Florida" [USA] according to Garden (1772:268-271); restricted to "Georgia" by Boulenger (1889:259); further restricted to "Savannah river, Ga." by Baur (1893b:220); unnecessarily restricted to "East Florida" by Neill (1951:17); restriction corrected to "Savannah River", Georgia by Schwartz (1956b:8)
- Original name
- Testudo ferox
- Common Name
- Florida Softshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Southern South Carolina, southern Alabama and central Georgia to southern Florida, USA
- Comments
- Reviewed by Webb (1962, 1973b; as Trionyx ferox) and Meylan (1987). Subgenus Platypeltis according to Meylan (1987:92).
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