Cuatro Cienegas softshell
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The Cuatro Ciénegas softshell (Apalone spinifera atra), also called the black spiny softshell, is a subspecies of the spiny softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae. It is found only in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in the Mexican state of Coahuila and it is considered critically endangered by the IUCN.[1] The subspecies, along with its parent species, was formerly classified in the genus Trionyx.[2]
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Bibliography
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- Webb RG, Legler JM (1960). "A New Softshell Turtle (Genus Trionyx) from Coahuila, Mexico". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 40 (2): 21–30. (Trionyx ater, new species).
External links
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- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. iucnredlist.org Retrieved 9 July 2007.
- Biodiversity.mongabay.com
Categories:
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- Apalone
- Endemic reptiles of Mexico
- Turtles of North America
- Cuatrociénegas Municipality
- Natural history of Coahuila
- Critically endangered biota of Mexico
- Critically endangered fauna of North America
- Reptiles described in 1960
- Taxa named by Robert G. Webb
- Taxonomy articles created by Polbot