Rough-footed mud turtle
Not to be confused with Mexican mud turtle.
Rough-footed mud turtle | |
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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[2] | |
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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
- 1 2 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). .
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