• Subtropical and temperate rivers, creeks, bayous, oxbows, river swamps, and reservoirs
• Habitat destruction and alteration, including channelization and damming
• Poaching for consumption, breeding farm stock, and commercial trade
• Incidental entanglement and drownings from fishing gear
• Decreasing
• Total wild population unknown
• Extirpated in former areas of inhabitance
• Now scare in areas while relatively abundant in others