Talk:Florida softshell turtle

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Old talk
should be merged with Florida Soft-shell turtle Tremewanbill 01:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * duh!

I agree with the above statement.

This stuff is not true. Anyone can go in here and change things. It is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.5.68.129 (talk) 15:57, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

correct common name - didn't correct capitals
I have edited the common name to be consistent with naming conventions established by the Center for Norther American Herpetology. The name is softshell, not softshell turtle. See their publication entitled Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles & Crocodilians (Collins and Taggart 2009). Download this publication from this website: www.naherpetology.org/pdf_files/1246.pdf

The full citation is as follows:

Collins, Joseph T. and Travis W. Taggart. 2009 Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians. Sixth Edition. Publication of the Center for North American Herpetology, Lawrence. iv+44 pp

I did not correct the incorrect initial caps on softshell and turtle. Wikipedia's inconsistency in applying rules for capitalizing common names for organisms is among the more annoying features. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.7.220.158 (talk) 21:09, 12 August 2010 (UTC)