#1505 · 🦎 reptiles
Florida Softshell Turtle
🇳🇱 Woeste drieklauw ·Apalone ferox
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nick Miller · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Max Roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © cassi saari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Levi F. C. Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Josh Olive · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © santafesandy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Dave Govoni · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Andrew Dreelin · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Florida softshell turtle ( Apalone ferox ) is a species of softshell turtle native to the Southeastern United States.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 17,202 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1783 (243 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Florida Softshell Turtle
- Nederlands
- Woeste drieklauw
- scientific name
- Apalone ferox
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Trionychidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 10
- sightings worldwide
- 17,202
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1783 by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Trionychidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 39566, Wikidata Q1429672, GBIF 2442665, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.