| | Leap to: North America / USA / California / Testudines / Trionychidae | | | About Apalone spinifera emoryi | | | Description: Carapace olive to light brown with black-bordered spots and pale line around rim of shell, conspicuously wider along rear of shell. White tubercles on rear of carapace. | | | Breeding: Lays 4-32 eggs in a cavity in a sand bank from May to August. May lay for than one clutch per year. Hatchlings emerge in late summer to fall, or the following spring. | | | Habitat: Small marshy streams and ponds, lakes and fast moving rivers with sandy banks. | | | Natural History: Aquatic and extremely wary. Basks on sand banks close to water's edge, in on rocks, logs and woodland debris which is in the water itself. Feeds on crayfish, amphibians and fish. |  | | | | Purchase Books Online | | | No Books in Database |  | | | | Internet Links and Resources | | | California Department of Fish and Game |  | | | | Other Subspecies of Apalone spinifera | | | Apalone spinifera aspera | Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell Turtle | | | Apalone spinifera guadalupensis | Guadalupe Spiny Softshell Turtle | | | Apalone spinifera hartwegi | Western Spiny Softshell Turtle | | | Apalone spinifera pallida | Pillid Spiny Softshell Turtle | | | Apalone spinifera spinifera | Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle | | Links
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