Kinosternoidea

Kinosternoidea
Common musk turtle, a species of the superfamily Kinosternoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Clade:	Chelydroidea
Superfamily:	Kinosternoidea Joyce, Parham, and Gauthier 2004 [1]
Families
Dermatemydidae [1] Kinosternidae [1]

Kinosternoidea is a superfamily of aquatic turtles, which includes two families: Dermatemydidae, and Kinosternidae.

Kinosternoids are cryptodires, turtles whose necks are able to retract within their shell. Molecular studies suggest they are likely the sister group to the snapping turtles of the family Chelydridae. ^[2] They are also omnivorous, oviparous, phosphatic, and actively mobile. ^[3]

Classification

Main article: Turtle classification

• Family Dermatemydidae ^[1]

• Genus Dermatemys ^[1]
• Genus Baptemys ^[4]

• Family Kinosternidae ^[1]

• Genus Hoplochelys ^[4]
• Subfamily Staurotypinae ^[1]

• Genus Claudius ^[1]
• Genus Staurotypus ^[1]

• Subfamily Kinosterninae ^[1]

• Genus Kinosternon ^[1]
• Genus Sternotherus ^[1]

Past classification

The entirely unrelated big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) was previously included in classification. ^[4]

References

1. Rhodin 2011, pp. 000.171-176
2. Crawford, Nicholas G.; Parham, James F.; Sellas, Anna B.; Faircloth, Brant C.; Glenn, Travis C.; Papenfuss, Theodore J.; Henderson, James B.; Hansen, Madison H.; Simison, W. Brian (2015). "A phylogenomic analysis of turtles". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 250–257. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.021. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   25450099.
3. "Kinosternoidea". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
4. Walter G. Joyce (2007) "Phylogenetic Relationships of Mesozoic Turtles Archived 2013-06-06 at the Wayback Machine " Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Bibliography

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31.