Rough-footed mud turtle

Rough-footed mud turtle
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Kinosternidae
Genus:	Kinosternon
Species:	K. hirtipes
Binomial name
	Kinosternon hirtipes; (Wagler, 1830)
Synonyms
	Kinosternon hirtipes hirtipes Cinosternon hirtipes ; Wagler, 1830 (nomen nudum); Cinosternon hirtipes ; Wagler, 1833; Clemmys (Cinosternon) hirtipes ; — Fitzinger, 1835; Cinostermon [sic] hirtipes ; — Gray, 1844; Kinosternum hirtipes ; — LeConte, 1854; Kinosternon hirtipes ; — Gray, 1856; Cinosternum hirtipes ; — Agassiz, 1857; Thyrosternum hirtipes ; — Agassiz, 1857; Ozotheca hirtipes ; — LeConte, 1859; Chinosternum [sic] hirtipes ; — Caballero & Caballero, 1938; Kinosternon [hirtipes] hirtipes ; — Schmidt, 1953; Kynosternon [sic] hirtipes ; — Lopez, 1975; Kinosternon hertipes [sic] ; Semmler, Seidel & Williams, 1977 ; (ex errore); Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense ; Pritchard, 1979 (nomen nudum); Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense ; Iverson, 1981; Kinosternon hirtipes chapalense [sic] ; Obst, 1996 (ex errore); Kinosternon hirtipes magdalense Kinosternon hirtipes magdalense ; Iverson, 1981; Kinosternon hirtipes megacephalum Kinosternon hirtipes megacephalum ; Iverson, 1981; Kinosternon hirtipes megalocephala [sic] ; Artner, 2003 (ex errore); Kinosternon megacephalum ; — Joseph-Ouni, 2004; Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi Kinosternon murrayi ; Glass & Hartweg, 1951; Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi ; — Schmidt, 1953; Kinosternon hirtipes ; murryi [sic] ; Ashton, 1976 (ex errore); Kinosternon hirtipes tarascense Kinosternon hirtipes tarascense ; Iverson, 1981;

The rough-footed mud turtle (Kinosternon hirtipes) ^[1] is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Geographic range

K. hirtipes is found in the United States in Texas, and it is also found in Mexico in the Mexican states: Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Mexico DF, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacán, Morelos, and Zacatecas.

Subspecies

Valley of Mexico mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes hirtipes (Wagler, 1830)
Lake Chapala mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense Iverson, 1981
San Juanico mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes magdalense Iverson, 1981
Viesca mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes megacephalum Iverson, 1981 (Extinct)
Colombian plateau mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi Glass & Hartweg, 1951
Patzcuarco mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes tarascense Iverson, 1981

Etymology

The subspecific name, murrayi, is in honor of American zoologist Leo Tildon Murray (1902–1958).^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/63670/0
^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 252–254. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi, p. 185).

External links

Wagler J (1830). Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugthiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. (Cinosternon [sic] hirtipes, new species, p. 137). (in German and Latin). [1].

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[Redlist-1] ttp://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/63670/0

[Fritz_2007-2] Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 252–254. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

[3] Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi, p. 185).

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