EMYSystem Genus Page: Kinosternon (American Mud and Musk Turtles)

EMYSystem Genus Page: Kinosternon

approximate range

K. acutum

K. alamosae

K. angustipons

K. baurii

K. chimalhuaca

K. creaseri

K. dunni

K. flavescens

K. herrerai

K. hirtipes

K. integrum

K. leucostomum

K. oaxacae

K. scorpioides

K. sonoriense

K. subrubrum


	Original Description	Spix 1824 : 17
	Common name	American Mud and Musk Turtles
	Distribution	Central, southern and eastern North America to central South America
	Comments	See Comment under Kinosternidae. Includes the genus Sternotherus (Gray, 1825; not Sternothaerus, Bell, 1825, which has been suppressed by the ICZN [Opinion 1534]; see also Bour and Dubois, 1984a) according to Seidel et. al. (1986), Gaffney and Meylan (1988), Ernst and Barbour (1989), and Iverson (1991), although Sternotherus may deserve subgeneric status (see also Hutchison, 1991, who advocated recognizing Sternotherus at the generic level). Tinkle (1958), Seidel and Lucchino (1981), and Seidel et. al. (1981) reviewed the relationships of the previously recognized "K. carinatum" complex. Zug (1986) reviewed the genus Sternotherus.

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