EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kinosternon sonoriense
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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 sonoriense (Sonora Mud Turtle)
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- Original Description
- LeConte 1854 : 184
- Holotype
- ANSP; apparently lost.
- Type Locality
- "Tucson, [formerly] in Sonora" [Pima Co., Arizona, USA]
- Original name
- Kinosternum sonoriense
- Common Name
- Sonora Mud Turtle
- Distribution
- The lower Colorado River drainage of Arizona, western New Mexico, and southeastern California, USA to the Río Yaqui basin in northern Sonora and to the Río Casa Grandes Basin in western Chihuahua, Mexico
- Comments
- Reviewed by Iverson (1976a and 1981b) and Smith and Smith (1979).
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