Cuatro Cienegas softshell

Cuatro Ciénegas softshell
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
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 & , 1960)[1]
Synonyms[2]
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 subspecies of the spiny softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae. The subspecies, along with its parent species, was formerly classified in the genus Trionyx.^[3]

Geographic range[]

A. s. atra is found only in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in the state of Coahuila, Mexico.

Conservation status[]

As of the last assessment in 1996, A. s. atra was considered "Critically Endangered" by the "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species".

References[]

External links[]

• Apalone ater.
• 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. iucnredlist.org Retrieved 9 July 2007.
• Biodiversity.mongabay.com

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 22 January 2012.
• Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010.
• 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).

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