Florida mud turtle

Florida mud turtle
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Kinosternidae
Genus:	Kinosternon
Species:	K. steindachneri
Binomial name
Kinosternon steindachneri (Siebenrock, 1906) [1]
Synonyms [1] [2]
Cinosternum steindachneri Siebenrock, 1906 Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri — Carr, 1940 Kinosternon steindachneri — Iverson et al., 2013

The Florida mud turtle (Kinosternon steindachneri) ^[1] is a species of turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to the state of Florida in the United States. This species of turtle is extremely rare compared to others. ^[3]

Taxonomy

Although originally described as a species, K. steindachneri was long considered a subspecies of the eastern mud turtle (K. subrubum), but a 2013 analysis found there to be no data supporting this classification, and supported its recognition as its own distinct species. ^[4]

Geographic range

K. steindachneri is found in peninsular Florida. Its type locality is near Orlando. ^[1]

Etymology

The specific name, steindachneri, is in honor of Austrian herpetologist Franz Steindachner. ^[5]

References

1. Rhodin, Anders G.J.; Iverson, John B.; Bour, Roger; Fritz, Uwe; Georges, Arthur; Shaffer, H. Bradley; van Dijk, Peter Paul (August 3, 2017). "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 7: 15, 44, 222. ISBN   978-1-5323-5026-9 . Retrieved October 4, 2019.
2. Species Kinosternon steindachneri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. "SCCF Tracking Rare Florida Mud Turtle | Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation". 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
4. Iverson, John B.; Le, Minh; Ingram, Colleen (2013). "Molecular phylogenetics of the mud and musk turtle family Kinosternidae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution69 (3): 929–939. (Kinosternon steindachneri, new status).
5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri, p. 252).

Further reading

• Carr A (1940). "A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida". University of Florida Publication, Biological Science Series3 (1): 1–118. (Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri, new status).
• Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT (2016). Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 color plates, 207 figures. ISBN   978-0-544-12997-9. (Kinosternon steindachneri, pp. 225–226, Figure 102).
• Siebenrock F (1906). "Eine neue Cinosternum-Art aus Florida". Zoologischer Anzeiger30: 727–728. (Cinosternum steindachneri, new species). (in German).