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Species of turtle

Florida mud turtle
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species: K. steindachneri
Binomial name
Kinosternon steindachneri
(Siebenrock, 1906)
Synonyms
  • Cinosternum steindachneri
    Siebenrock, 1906
  • Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri
    Carr, 1940
  • Kinosternon steindachneri
    Iverson et al., 2013

The Florida mud turtle (Kinosternon steindachneri) is a species of turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to the state of Florida in the United States. This species of turtle is extremely rare compared to others.

Taxonomy

Although originally described as a species, K. steindachneri was long considered a subspecies of the eastern mud turtle (K. subrubum), but a 2013 analysis found there to be no data supporting this classification, and supported its recognition as its own distinct species.

Geographic range

K. steindachneri is found in peninsular Florida. Its type locality is near Orlando.

Etymology

The specific name, steindachneri, is in honor of Austrian herpetologist Franz Steindachner.

References

  1. ^ Rhodin, Anders G.J.; Iverson, John B.; Bour, Roger; Fritz, Uwe; Georges, Arthur; Shaffer, H. Bradley; van Dijk, Peter Paul (August 3, 2017). "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 7: 15, 44, 222. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  2. Species Kinosternon steindachneri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "SCCF Tracking Rare Florida Mud Turtle | Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation". 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  4. Iverson, John B.; Le, Minh; Ingram, Colleen (2013). "Molecular phylogenetics of the mud and musk turtle family Kinosternidae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 929–939. (Kinosternon steindachneri, new status).
  5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri, p. 252).

Further reading

  • Carr A (1940). "A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida". University of Florida Publication, Biological Science Series 3 (1): 1–118. (Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri, new status).
  • Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT (2016). Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 color plates, 207 figures. ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (Kinosternon steindachneri, pp. 225–226, Figure 102).
  • Siebenrock F (1906). "Eine neue Cinosternum-Art aus Florida". Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 727–728. (Cinosternum steindachneri, new species). (in German).
Kinosternidae family
Genera
Species of the Kinosternidae family
Claudius
Hoplochelys
Kinosternon
Sternotherus
Staurotypus
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.
Testudines
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
Taxon identifiers
Kinosternon steindachneri


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