Sonora mud turtle
Appearance
Sonora mud turtle | |
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Male | |
In Sonora, Mexico | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Kinosternidae |
Genus: | Kinosternon |
Species: | K. sonoriense
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Binomial name | |
Kinosternon sonoriense Le Conte, 1854
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Synonyms[2] | |
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The Sonora mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense), also known as the Sonoyta mud turtle, is a species of turtle in the Kinosternidae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States.
Distribution
[edit]- Mexico: Chihuahua and Sonora.
- United States: Arizona and New Mexico (extirpated in California).
Subspecies
[edit]- Sonora mud turtle (subspecies) - Kinosternon sonoriense sonoriense (Le Conte, 1854)
- Sonoyta mud turtle - Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale (Inverson, 1981)
Gallery
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Male
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Female, Arizona
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In Arizona
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In Sonora, Mexico
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In Sonora, Mexico
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Plastron, Sonora, Mexico
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Juvenile, in Arizona
References
[edit]- ^ van Dijk, P.P. (2016) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Kinosternon sonoriense". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T11011A97382186. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T11011A3238623.en.
- ^ Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 258–259. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
Sources
[edit]- Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Kinosternon sonoriense. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
- LeConte, 1854 : Description of four new species of Kinosternum. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 7, p. 180–190 (integral text).
- Ligon, Db, et al. “Physiological and Behavioral Variation in Estivation among Mud Turtles ( Kinosternon Spp.).” Physiological and Biochemical Zoology., vol. 75, no. 3, 2002, pp. 283–293., https://doi.org/10.1086/342000.
- Stone, P. A. (2001). Movements and Demography of the Sonoran Mud Turtle, Kinosternon sonoriense. The Southwestern Naturalist, 46(1), 41–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/3672372
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List near threatened species
- Kinosternon
- Turtles of North America
- Reptiles of Mexico
- Reptiles of the United States
- Fauna of the Sonoran Desert
- Fauna of the Southwestern United States
- Fauna of the Colorado Desert
- Fauna of the Yuma Desert
- Natural history of Arizona
- Natural history of Chihuahua (state)
- Natural history of New Mexico
- Natural history of Sonora
- Reptiles described in 1854
- Taxa named by John Eatton Le Conte
- Turtle stubs