White-lipped mud turtle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species:
K. leucostomum
Binomial name
Kinosternon leucostomum
Synonyms[1]
Kinosternon leucostomum leucostomum
  • Cinosternon leucostomum
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851
  • Kinosternum leucostomum
    — LeConte, 1854
  • Kinosternon leucostomum
    — Gray, 1856
  • Cinosternum leucostomum
    — Agassiz, 1857
  • Thyrosternum leucostomum
    — Agassiz, 1857
  • Swanka maculata
    Gray, 1869
  • Swanka leucostoma
    — Gray, 1870
  • Cinosternum brevigulare
    Günter, 1885
  • Cinosternum cobanum
    Günter, 1885
  • Cinosternon cobanum
    — Atkinson, 1907
  • Kinsternon leucostomum
    — Stuart, 1934
  • Kinosternon mopanum
    Neill, 1965
  • Kinosternon leucostoma
    — Tryon, 1975
  • Kinosternon leucostomum leucostomum
    — Berry, 1979
Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale
  • Cinosternum brevigulare
    Cope, 1885
  • Cinosternum postinguinale
    Cope, 1887
    (nomen novum)
  • Cinosternon brevigulare
    — Atkinson, 1907
  • Cinosternum spurrelli
    Boulenger, 1913
  • Kinosternon postinguinale
    — Schmidt, 1946
  • Kinosternon spurelli [sic]
    Schmidt, 1946
    (ex errore)
  • Kinosternon spurrelli
    — Mertens & Wermuth, 1955
  • Kinosternon postinguinal [sic]
    Legler, 1965
    (ex errore)
  • Kinosternon leucostomum spurrelli
    — Pritchard, 1979
  • Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale
    — Berry, 1979
  • Kinosternon leucostomum spurelli
    — Rudloff, 1990
  • Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinde [sic]
    Nöllert, 1992
    (ex errore)

The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.

Geographic range

Kinosternon leucostomum is found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2]

Subspecies

  • Northern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. leucostomum (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
  • Southern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. postinguinale (Cope, 1887)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Kinosternon.

Etymology

The synonym, Cinosternon spurrelli Boulenger, 1913, which is a synonym of Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale, was named in honor of British zoologist Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 254–255. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
  2. ↑ "Kinosternon leucostomum ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 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 spurrelli, p. 250).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1889). Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). New Edition. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). x + 311 pp. + Plates I-III. (Cinosternon leucostomum, pp. 42–43).
  • Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1851). "Cinosternon leucostomum ". In: Duméril AMC, Duméril A[HA] (1851). Catalogue Methodique de la Collection des Reptiles. Paris: Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris / Gide & Baudry. 224 pp. (Cinosternon leucostomum, new species, p. 17). (in French). ().
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