| Southwestern pond turtle | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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,[1] is an aquatic turtle of the genus Actinemys in the family Emydidae.[2] It can be found in bodies of water in southern California and Baja California.[3]
References
- ↑ "Actinemys pallida". NCBI taxonomy database. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ↑ Reptile database. org
- ↑ 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. 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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