So, I have up close photos of Smooth softshell nostrils, and I have looked at plenty of spiny nostrils, but I don't appear to have any good pictures of the nostrils of spiny softshells. Does anyone else have some shots they could share so I can show them to someone as a comparison?
Here is the nostrils of a Smooth Softshell
Pictures of softshell nostrils
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Re: Pictures of softshell nostrils
How about this one?
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Apalone spinifera (Spiny Softshell Turtle). Not the best photo in the world but you can see the spines on the septum.
Apalone mutica (Smooth Softshell Turtle)
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Excellent! Also Chris, if you end up finding my other A. mutica record, I am not sure if I have nostril shots uploaded with it, so I will have to check the photos I have to look through the other photos of the animal I have. I uploaded the underside of each turtle to show the color differences which I thought was diagnostic enough for the voucher.
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I guess to be thorough, here are shots of the underside of both species too.
Adult A. spinifera
Young A. mutica
If anyone has a shot of the underside of an adult mutica, please post that too.
Adult A. spinifera
Young A. mutica
If anyone has a shot of the underside of an adult mutica, please post that too.
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I don't have an underside of A. mutica ( I have underside shots of every things else... doh). I am not familiar with the underside diagnostic characteristics. What are you looking at, color?
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The underside of the rear of the shell is brown in mutica, but white in spinifera, though I am trying to find where I first read that as a diagnostic.
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Here ya go boss.
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I just posted this on another topic. Don feel free to use this as you wish. Give me a call sometime we need to finally catch up, things are settling down now.
Here's the underside but it has some old guy in it.
Here's the underside but it has some old guy in it.
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Let me know if you find this cited somewhere. I will have to pay more attention to that characteristic in the future.psyon wrote:The underside of the rear of the shell is brown in mutica, but white in spinifera, though I am trying to find where I first read that as a diagnostic.
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Nice shot, Justin!
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Maybe it is only in juveniles, thats why I was hoping for other pictures. I still wish I remembered where I had read it at.Chris Smith wrote:Don- Here is a record of A. mutica that has white on the rear portion of the shell.
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Not a "softshell" turtle but similar
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Here is a FL soft shell:
and a mata mata with a similar nose:
and a mata mata with a similar nose:
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Re: Pictures of softshell nostrils
Justinnm: That first picture is probably the coolest shot of any turtle I've ever seen. I love the expression on it's face
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Here's some belly pics of a couple different male Mutica from the Minnesota River 1997:
And here's an odd thing...here's a pic of a Spiny Softshell with a funny wierd thing that came down out of its butt! (???) It looked like it was leaking oil! After about a minute, it went back in again. I've never seen this before or since. Any idea what this was all about? (Not sure if it was a male or female)
And here's an odd thing...here's a pic of a Spiny Softshell with a funny wierd thing that came down out of its butt! (???) It looked like it was leaking oil! After about a minute, it went back in again. I've never seen this before or since. Any idea what this was all about? (Not sure if it was a male or female)
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Here's a couple of pics of a Spiny Softshell from Arizona.
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I believe this is a Gulf Coast Spiny