White-lipped mud turtle | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Kinosternidae |
Genus: | Kinosternon |
Species: |
K. leucostomum
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Binomial name | |
Kinosternon leucostomum (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851) | |
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The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a speciesofmud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemictoCentral America and northwestern South America.
Kinosternon leucostomum is found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2]
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Kinosternon.
The synonym, Cinosternon spurrelli Boulenger, 1913, which is a synonym of Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale, was named in honor of British zoologist Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell.[3]
Kinosternidae family
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Genera |
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Claudius |
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†Hoplochelys |
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Kinosternon |
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Sternotherus |
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Staurotypus |
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Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. Key: †=extinct. |
Kinosternon leucostomum |
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