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    Species Accepted

    Apalone mutica (Lesueur, 1827)

    Gulf Coast Smooth Softshell Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Apalone
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
      Glatte Weichschildkröte German
      Glattrand-Weichschildkröte German
      Gulf Coast Smooth Softshell
      Gulf Coast Smooth Softshell Turtle English
      Midland Smooth Softshell
      Midland Smooth Softshell Turtle English
      Smooth Softshell English
      Smooth Softshell Turtle English
      Smooth Softshelled Turtle English
      Tartaruga-de-casco-mole-do-golfo Portuguese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Source Dataset

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      80 results
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      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      WARFEL, TIMOTHY. (2022). Geographic distribution: APALONE MUTICA (Smooth Softshell). USA: COLORADO: Las Animas Co. Herpetological Review 53 (1): 75.
      Hennig, A. S. (2011). Apalone mutica mutica (LESUEUR, 1827). Elaphe 19 (1): 77-78.
      Lee, T.N., M.V. Plummer & N.E. Mills. (2007). Use of Posthatching Yolk and External Forage to Maximize Early Growth in Apalone mutica Hatchlings. Journal of Herpetology 41 (3): 492-500.
      TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour]. (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, Doi:10.3854/Crm.5.000.Checklist.V7.2014.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Pearson, & Luke. (2016). Geographic Distribution: Apalone mutica mutica (Midland Smooth Softshell). Herpetological Review 47 (4): 624.
      Le Sueur, Ch. A. (1827). Note sur deux especes de tortues du genre Trionyx Gff. St. H. Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 15: 257- 268.
      Mullins, M.A. Janzen, F.J. (2006). Phenotypic effects of thermal means and variances on Smooth Softshell Turtle (Apalone mutica) embryos and hatchlings. Herpetologica 62 (1): 27-36.

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