EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Sternotherus carinatus
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Kinosternidae (American Mud and Musk Turtles)
subfamily.......Staurotypinae (Tropical Musk Turtles)
genus...............Sternotherus (Musk Turtles)
species..............Sternotherus carinatus (Razor-backed Musk Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1855 : 47
- Syntypes
- (4 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.4.32; BMNH 1947.3.4.64; BMNH 1947.3.4.83; BMNH 1947.3.4.84
- Type Locality
- "Louisiana"; restricted by Schmidt (1953:87) to "vicinity of New Orleans" [Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA]
- Original name
- Aromochelys carinatum
- Common Name
- Razor-backed Musk Turtle
- Distribution
- Southern USA, from eastern Oklahoma and Texas to eastern Mississippi
- Comments
- Reviewed by Iverson (1979b; as Sternotherus carinatus).
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