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Florida Mud Turtle
Kinosternon steindachneri (Siebenrock, 1906)
kee-noe-STER-non — stein-dok-ER-ai

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:

First instance(s) of published English names:
Mud Tortoise (Kinosternon pennsylvanicum: Gray, John E. 1856. Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). Taylor and Francis, London, England. 79pp.); Florida Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1997 Starkey, David E. Molecular systematics and biogeography of the New World turtle genera Trachemys and Kinosternon. Dissertation. Texas A&M, College Station, Texas.. 149pp.
1998 Walker, DeEtte, Paul E. Moler, Kurt A. Buhlmann, and John C. Avise. Phylogeographic patterns in Kinosternon subrubrum and K. bauri based on mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis. Herpetologica 54(2):174-184
2012 Bourque, Jason R. An extinct Mud Turtle of the Kinosternon flavescens Group (Testudines, Kinosternidae) from the Middle Miocene (Late Barstovian) of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(1):68-81
2013 Iverson, John B., Minh Le, and Colleen Ingram. Molecular phylogenetics of the mud and musk turtle family Kinosternidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69:929-939
2016 Bourque, Jason R. New mud turtles (Kinosternidae, Kinosternon) from the middle-late Miocene of the United States. Journal of Paleontology 89:821-844.

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