124 STEJNEGER AND BARBOUR, 1917 



TYPE locality: Mediterranean Sea. 



range: Atlantic Ocean; occasionally on entire coast as far north 

 as Maine. 



Dermochelys schlegelii (Garman) 



Sphargis coriacea var. schlegelii Garman 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 25, 1884, p. 303. 

 Dermochelys schlegelii Stejneger 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 58, 1907, p. 485. 



TYPE locality: Tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean. 

 range: Tropical Pacific Ocean; coasts of Lower California and 

 Southern California. 



TRIONYCHIDAE (FAMILY) 



Amyda (GENUS) 



Oken, Lehrb. Zool., Vol. 2, 1816, p. 348 

 type: euphratica 

 SOFl^SHELLED TURTLES 



Amyda emoryi (Agassiz) 



Aspidonecles emoryi Agassiz 



Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S., Vol. 1, 1857, p. 407, Vol. 2, pi. 6, figs. 4, 5. 



TYPE locality: Rio Grande River, near Brownsville, Texas. 

 range: Rivers of Texas, north into southern Oklahoma and 

 Arkansas. 



Amyda ferox (Schneider) Vv\ 



Testudo ferox Schneider 



Naturg. Schildkr., 1783, p. 330. 

 Amyda jerox Oken 



Lehrb. Zool., Vol. 2, 1816, p. 348. 



TYPE locality: Savanna River, Georgia. 

 range : South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. 



" Amyda mutica (Le Sueur) 



Trionyx muticus Le Sueur 



Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Vol. 15, Dec. 1827, p. 263, pi. 7. 

 Amyda mutica Agassiz 



Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S., 1857, Vol. 1, p. 399. 



TYPE locality: Wabash River at New Harmony, Ind. 

 range : Middle and Northern tributaries of the Mississippi and 

 St. Lawrence Rivers. 



