EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kinosternon oaxacae
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Kinosternidae (American Mud and Musk Turtles)
subfamily.......Kinosterninae (American Mud and Musk turtles)
genus...............Kinosternon (American Mud and Musk Turtles)
species..............Kinosternon oaxacae (Oaxaca Mud Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Berry and Iverson 1980b : 313
- Holotype
- UCM 48857
- Type Locality
- "11.6 km N of Pochutla (San Pedro Pochutla) along Mexican Hwy 175 (ca. 235 m), Oaxaca, Mexico (15° 46' N, 96° 28' W)"
- Original name
- Kinosternon oaxacae
- Common Name
- Oaxaca Mud Turtle
- Distribution
- Southern Oaxaca and (presumably) Guerrero, Mexico
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith and Smith (1979) and Iverson (1983c and 1986a). Pritchard (1979) inadvertently published excerpts from the (in press) description of Berry and Iverson; the ICZN (Melville, 1985) has suppressed the name K. oaxacae Pritchard (1979).
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