EMYSystem Subfamily Page: Kinosterninae

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Kinosternon


	Original Description	Agassiz 1857 : 347
	Original name	Cinosternoidea
	Common name	American Mud and Musk turtles
	Distribution	As for the family
	Comments	Only one genus is currently recognized (Seidel et al., 1986; Gaffney and Meylan, 1988; Ernst and Barbour, 1989; Iverson, 1991), although this is not universally accepted (e.g., Conant and Collins, 1991).

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