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Sonora mud turtle
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| Sonora mud turtle | |
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| Male | |
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| In Sonora, Mexico | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Kinosternidae |
| Genus: | Kinosternon |
| Species: | K. sonoriense
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| Binomial name | |
| Kinosternon sonoriense Le Conte, 1854
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The Sonora mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense) is a species of turtle in the Kinosternidae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States. One subspecies, the Sonoyta mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale) is currently recognized.
Distribution
[edit]- Mexico: Chihuahua and Sonora.
- United States: Arizona and New Mexico (extirpated in California).
Subspecies
[edit]- Sonora mud turtle (subspecies) - Kinosternon sonoriense sonoriense (Le Conte, 1854)
- Sonoyta mud turtle - Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale (Inverson, 1981)
Gallery
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Male -
Female, Arizona -
In Arizona -
In Sonora, Mexico -
In Sonora, Mexico -
Plastron, Sonora, Mexico -
Juvenile, in Arizona
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References
[edit]- ^ Stone, P.A. (2025). "Kinosternon sonoriense". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2025 e.T11011A161718519.
- ^ Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 258–259. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
Sources
[edit]- Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Kinosternon sonoriense. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
- LeConte, 1854 : Description of four new species of Kinosternum. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 7, p. 180–190 (integral text).
- Ligon, Db, et al. "Physiological and Behavioral Variation in Estivation among Mud Turtles ( Kinosternon Spp.)." Physiological and Biochemical Zoology., vol. 75, no. 3, 2002, pp. 283–293., https://doi.org/10.1086/342000.
- Stone, P. A. (2001). Movements and Demography of the Sonoran Mud Turtle, Kinosternon sonoriense. The Southwestern Naturalist, 46(1), 41–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/3672372
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