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Original
Description |
LeConte 1854 : 183 |
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Type
Locality |
"Mexico"; restricted to "Acapulco, Guerrero" [Mexico] by Smith and Taylor (1950a:331 and 1950b:25) |
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Holotype |
Unknown, not ANSP. |
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Original name |
Kinosternum integrum |
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Common
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Mexican Mud Turtle |
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Distribution |
Sonora and western Tamaulipas, south to Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Comments |
Confused in early literature with Kinosternon alamosae and Kinosternon hirtipes ; see Iverson (1981b) for literature corrections. Reviewed by Berry (1978) and Smith and Smith (1979). Webb (1984:230, 237) suggested that Mexican Plateau and Pacific Coastal Plain populations were subspecifically distinct; however, the morphometric analysis of Berry (1978) seems to contradict that recommendation. Populations in coastal Jalisco and Colima currently included in this taxon actually represent a distinct species (Berry, 1978; Iverson, 1991; Berry et. al., unpublished). |
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