White-lipped mud turtle

White-lipped mud turtle
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Kinosternidae
Genus:	Kinosternon
Species:	K. leucostomum
Binomial name
Kinosternon leucostomum (Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
Synonyms
Kinosternon leucostomum leucostomum Cinosternon leucostomum 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 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 Kinosternidae family found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

Subspecies

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

References

• Duméril & Bibron, 1851 : [Emys areolata, Emys berardii, Cinosternon leucostomum, Cinosternon cruentatum] in Duméril & Duméril, 1851 : Catalogue Methodique de la Collection des Reptiles. Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Gide & Baudry, p. 1-224 ([1]).