Mexican mud turtle
Mexican mud turtle |
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Scientific classification |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Chordata |
Class: |
Reptilia |
Order: |
Testudines |
Family: |
Kinosternidae |
Genus: |
Kinosternon |
Species: |
K. integrum |
Binomial name |
Kinosternon integrum (Le Conte, 1854, 1925) |
Synonyms[2] |
- Kinosternum integrum LeConte, 1854
- Cinosternum integrum Agassiz, 1857
- Thyrosternum integrum Agassiz, 1857
- Thyrosternon integrum Gray, 1858
- Cinosternon integrum Strauch, 1862
- Kinosternon integrum Müller, 1865
- Swanka integra Gray, 1870
- Cinosternon rostellum Bocourt, 1876
- Cinosternon guanajuatense Dugès, 1888
- Cinosternum rostellum Boulenger, 1889
- Cinosternum scorpioides integrum Siebenrock, 1904
- Kinosternon scorpioides integrum Ahl, 1934
- Kinosternon intergrum Dixon, 1960 (ex errore)
- Cinosetum integrum Gillet, 1995
- Kinosternon ingegrum Rogner, 1996 (ex errore)
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Mexican mud turtle (Kinosternon integrum), [1] or Guanajuato mud turtle, is a species of mud turtle in the Kinosternidae family. Endemic to Mexico, it is found in Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas.
References
Sources
- Le Conte, 1854 : Description of four new species of Kinosternum. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 7, p. 180–190 ().