EMYSystem Text Only Subfamily Page: Staurotypinae
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Kinosternidae (American Mud and Musk Turtles)
subfamily.......Staurotypinae (Tropical Musk Turtles)
genus
species
genera list
Claudius (Narrow-bridged Musk Turtle)
Staurotypus (Giant Musk Turtles)
Sternotherus (Musk Turtles)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1869a : 180
- Original name
- Staurotypina
- Common Name
- Tropical Musk Turtles
- Distribution
- Southern Mexico and northern Central America
- Comments
- See Comment under Kinosternidae.
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