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Species of turtle

White-lipped mud turtle
In Costa Rica
1852 illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species: K. leucostomum
Binomial name
Kinosternon leucostomum
(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
Synonyms
Kinosternon leucostomum leucostomum
  • Cinosternon leucostomum
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851
  • Kinosternum leucostomum
    LeConte, 1854
  • Kinosternon leucostomum
    Gray, 1856
  • Cinosternum leucostomum
    Agassiz, 1857
  • Thyrosternum leucostomum
    — Agassiz, 1857
  • Swanka maculata
    Gray, 1869
  • Swanka leucostoma
    — Gray, 1870
  • Cinosternum brevigulare
    Günter, 1885
  • Cinosternum cobanum
    Günter, 1885
  • Cinosternon cobanum
    Atkinson, 1907
  • Kinsternon leucostomum
    Stuart, 1934
  • Kinosternon mopanum
    Neill, 1965
  • Kinosternon leucostoma
    — Tryon, 1975
  • Kinosternon leucostomum leucostomum
    — Berry, 1979
Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale
  • Cinosternum brevigulare
    Cope, 1885
  • Cinosternum postinguinale
    Cope, 1887
    (nomen novum)
  • Cinosternon brevigulare
    — Atkinson, 1907
  • Cinosternum spurrelli
    Boulenger, 1913
  • Kinosternon postinguinale
    Schmidt, 1946
  • Kinosternon spurelli
    Schmidt, 1946
    (ex errore)
  • Kinosternon spurrelli
    Mertens & Wermuth, 1955
  • Kinosternon postinguinal
    Legler, 1965
    (ex errore)
  • Kinosternon leucostomum spurrelli
    Pritchard, 1979
  • Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale
    — Berry, 1979
  • Kinosternon leucostomum spurelli
    — Rudloff, 1990
  • Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinde
    Nöllert, 1992
    (ex errore)

The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.

Geographic range

Kinosternon leucostomum is found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

  • In Ecuador In Ecuador
  • In Ecuador In Ecuador
  • In Panama In Panama
  • In Costa Rica In Costa Rica
  • Plastron, in Costa Rica Plastron, in Costa Rica
  • Plastron, in Belize Plastron, in Belize
  • Plastron, in Belize Plastron, in Belize
  • Plastron, in Ecuador Plastron, in Ecuador

Subspecies

  • Northern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. leucostomum (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
  • Southern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. postinguinale (Cope, 1887)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Kinosternon.

  • K. l. postinguinale in Colombia

Etymology

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.

References

  1. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 254–255. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
  2. "Kinosternon leucostomum ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. 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 spurrelli, p. 250).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1889). Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). New Edition. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). x + 311 pp. + Plates I-III. (Cinosternon leucostomum, pp. 42–43).
  • Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1851). "Cinosternon leucostomum ". In: Duméril AMC, Duméril A (1851). Catalogue Methodique de la Collection des Reptiles. Paris: Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris / Gide & Baudry. 224 pp. (Cinosternon leucostomum, new species, p. 17). (in French). ().
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 leucostomum
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