EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kinosternon subrubrum
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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 subrubrum (Common Mud Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Bonnaterre 1789 : 27
- Holotype
- Not stated
- Type Locality
- Not stated; designated as "vicinity of Philadelphia" [Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, USA] by Schmidt (1953:90)
- Original name
- Testudo subrubra
- Common Name
- Common Mud Turtle
- Distribution
- eastern USA: Connecticut to Florida to Indiana to east Texas
- Comments
- Originally described by Lacepède (1788:618), but that work was made unavailable by ICZN opinion 1463 (1987). Reviewed by Iverson (1977a).
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