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1) there are 25 different species of soft shell turtles
2) there are soft shell turtles across 4 continents North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia
3) several species of soft shell turtles are endangered

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the most closely related organisms are other turtles like box turtles and green turtles

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They have lived to be more than 25 years old in captivity. Data on wild spiny softshell turtles is uncertain, but one female was reported to be 53 years old

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Female turtles lay 10-30 eggs in neatly dug holes in sandy areas near the water's edge.

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Spiny The spiny soft shell turtle is spread throughout most of the United States, from the central-eastern U.S. to Wisconsin and Minnesota, and as far south as Mexico. Its habitat includes rivers, ponds, streams, and lakes with a sandy or muddy bottom and relatively little vegetation.

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soft shell turtles are mostly carnivorous and eat small aquatic life such as insects, crayfish, small fish, and some aquatic plants

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shell is soft, flat and rubbery. head can go into skin around the head. it has a long pointed nose at the end of it head. it also has claws on the ends of its limbs

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Kingdom: | animalia
Phylum: | chordata
Class: | reptilia
Order: | testudines
Suborder: | cryptodira
Family: | trionychia
Genus: | apalone

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Pelodiscus sinensis