Creaser's mud turtle

Creaser's mud turtle
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species: K. creaseri
Binomial name
Kinosternon creaseri
Hartweg, 1934[1]

Creaser's mud turtle (Kinosternon creaseri) is a species of mud turtle in the Kinosternidae family. The species is endemic to Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name, creaseri, is in honor of American zoologist Edwin Phillip Creaser (1907–1981).[2]

Geographic range

K. creaseri is found in the Mexican states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan.[3]

References

  1. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 251–252. ISSN 18640-5755. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon creaseri, p. 61).
  3. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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