Southwestern pond turtle

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Southwestern pond turtle
Western pond turtle in the Mojave Desert.jpg
Status TNC G2.svg
Imperiled  (NatureServe) [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Actinemys
Species:
A. pallida
Binomial name
Actinemys pallida
(Seeliger, 1945)

Actinemys pallida, the southwestern pond turtle, [2] is an aquatic turtle of the genus Actinemys in the family Emydidae . [3] It can be found in bodies of water in southern California and Baja California. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "Actinemys pallida". NCBI taxonomy database. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  3. ↑ Reptile database. org
  4. ↑ Spinks, Phillip Q.; Thomson, Robert C.; Shaffer, Bradley (2014-03-26). "The advantages of going large: genome-wide SNPs clarify the complex population history and systematics of the threatened western pond turtle". Molecular Ecology. 23 (9): 2228–2241. Bibcode:2014MolEc..23.2228S. doi:10.1111/mec.12736. PMID   24673803. S2CID   4524707 . Retrieved 2021-08-13. USA (S California), Mexico (N Baja California); central coast range south of the San Francisco Bay area to the species' southern range boundary, including the Mojave River (Spinks et al. 2014).


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