Northern spiny softshell turtle

Northern spiny softshell turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
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 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 2007, pp. 306–310
2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 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).

External links

• Species Apalone spinifera at The Reptile Database

• Turtle Field Guide: Spiny Softshell Subspecies

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).