#apalone

[herpsandbirds]

Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinifera aspera), juvenile, family Trionychidae, near Columbus, GA, USA

photograph by Balázs Farkas

[archipithecus]

softshell turtle! this is minnesota so it’s either spiny (Apalone spinifera) or smooth (Apalone mutica), but i didn’t get close enough to see

[animalids]

Midland smooth softshell turtle (Apalone mutica mutica)

Photo by Peter Paplanus

[wonder-rooms]

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydus) & Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera), Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire Naturelle (1892) - Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny

[herpskeepers]

Hatching smooth softshell turtle (Apalone mutica).

Credit: Mike Day

[herpsandbirds]

Midland Smooth Softshell Turtle (Apalone mutica calvata), female, family Trionychidae, Iowa, USA

photograph by Jeff LeClere

[herpsandbirds]

American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), family Alligatoridae, hanging out with a pair of Florida Softshell Turtles (Apalone ferox), family Trionychidae, FL, USA

photograph by Josh Houston

[herpsandbirds]

Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera), family Trionychidae, and Northern Map Turtle (Graptemys geographica), family Emydidae, basking on a rock in London, ONT, Canada

photograph by Judy Pearson