Northern spiny softshell turtle

Apalone spinifera hartwegi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Cryptodira
Family:Trionychidae
Genus:Apalone
Species: A. spinifera
Subspecies: A. s. hartwegi
Trinomial name
Apalone spinifera hartwegi
(Conant & Goin, 1948)
Synonyms[1]
  • Amyda spinifera hartwegi
    Conant & Goin, 1948
  • Amyda ferox hartwegi
    — Neill, 1951
  • Trionyx ferox hartwegi
    — Schmidt, 1953
  • Trionyx spinifer hartwegi
    — Schwartz, 1956
  • Trionyx spiniferus hartwegi
    — Wermuth & Mertens, 1961
  • Trionyx spiniferus bartwegi [sic]
    Curds & Knott, 1971
    (ex errore)
  • Apalone spinifera hartwegi
    — Ernst & Barbour, 1989
  • Apalone spinifera hartwegi
    — Stubbs, 1989

The northern spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera hartwegi ) is a subspecies of soft-shelled turtle in the family Trionychidae. The subspecies is native to the western United States, from Arkansas to California.

Etymology

The subpecific name, hartwegi, is in honor of Dr. Norman Edouard Hartweg (1904-1964), who was a specialist in turtles and professor of zoology at the University of Michigan.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Fritz & Havaš 2007, pp. 306–310
  2. ↑ 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 hartwegi, p. 117).

Further reading

  • Conant R, Goin CJ (1948). "A New Subspecies of Soft-shelled Turtle from the Central United States, with Comments on the Application of the Name Amyda ". Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan (510): 1-19. (Amyda spinifera hartwegi, new subspecies).
  • Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 149-368.


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