Loggerhead musk turtle
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| Loggerhead musk turtle | |
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| hatchling loggerhead musk turtle | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Family: | Kinosternidae |
| Genus: | Sternotherus |
| Species: | S. minor |
| Binomial name | |
| Sternotherus minor (Agassiz, 1857) |
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The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor) is a species of turtle native to the United States.
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Geographic distribution [edit]
The loggerhead musk turtle can be found in the states of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
Description [edit]
It gets its name from its unusually large head, compared to the common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus). Adults can be 8–13 cm (3-5 inches) in carapace length. Barbels are present on the chin only, not on the throat.[2]
Habitat [edit]
They live in clean freshwater habitats.
Subspecies [edit]
Two subspecies are recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies.
Sternotherus minor minor (Agassiz, 1857)
Sternotherus minor peltifer H.M. Smith & Glass, 1947[3]
References [edit]
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 262–263. ISSN 18640-5755. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ^ Conant, R. 1975. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 429 pp. ISBN 0-395-19977-8. (Sternotherus minor, p. 42 + Plates 4,5 + Map 8.)
- ^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading [edit]
- Agassiz, L. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. I. Little, Brown, and Co. Boston. li + 452 pp.
(Goniochelys minor, p. 424.)
- Smith, H.M. & B.P. Glass. 1947. A new musk turtle from the southeastern United States. Journ. Washington Acad Sci. 37 (1): 22-24.
- McCoy, C.J., A.V. Bianculli and R.C. Vogt. 1978. Sternotherus minor in the Pascagoula River system, Mississippi. Herpetological Review. 9 (3): 109.
- Ernst, C. H.; Lovich, J.E. (2009). Turtles of the United States and Canada (2 ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. pp. 519–525. ISBN 978-0-8018-9121-2.
External links [edit]
Media related to Sternotherus minor at Wikimedia Commons 
Data related to Sternotherus minor at Wikispecies
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