Cuatro Cienegas softshell

Cuatro Ciénegas softshell
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Trionychidae
Genus:	Apalone
Species:	A. spinifera
Subspecies:	A. s. atra
Trinomial name
Apalone spinifera atra (Webb & Legler, 1960)[3]
Synonyms[4]
Trionyx ater Webb & Legler, 1960 Trionyx spinifer ater — Morafka, 1977 Trionyx spiniferus ater — Smith & Smith, 1980 Apalone spinifera ater — Groombridge, 1988 Apalone ater — David, 1994 Trionys spiniferus ater — Obst, 1996 Apalone spiniferus ater — Ferri, 2002 Apalone spinifera atra — Artner, 2003 Apalone (Apalone) atra — Vetter, 2004

The Cuatro Ciénegas softshell (Apalone spinifera atra), also called the black spiny softshell, is a

Bibliography

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (31 December 2011). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2012.
• Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 149–368.
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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

• Tortoise.; Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (2016). "Apalone spinifera ssp. atra".
  doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T1820A97408016.en
  . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
• 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. iucnredlist.org Retrieved 9 July 2007.
• Biodiversity.mongabay.com