Soft-shelled turtles of the family Trionychidae today live in rivers and freshwater swamps of Asia, the Indo-Australian archipelago, Intertropical Africa, and North America. They are characterized in the Western Hemisphere by a distribution in predominantly temperate habitats of North America, although they do range into the subtropical region of northeastern Mexico; they do not currently live in Central or South America.
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