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Common Name:
Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Subclass: Anapsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Infraorder:
Superfamily: Trionychoidea
Family: Trionychidae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Species:
Apalone spinifera spinifera

Checklist No:

Location:
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, NY
USA
GPS: 40.663647,-73.969359

Date: 12/31/04

Stage:
Sex:
Notes:

Image at BugGuide:

Apalone spinifera spinifera Trionychidae
Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle
Identifications represent best guesses on my part and are not intended to be authoritative.
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