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Striped Mud Turtle
Kinosternon baurii (Garman, 1891)
kee-noe-STER-non — bar-EE-ai

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Delaware Florida Georgia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Striped Mud Turtle (Kinosternon bauri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Striped Mud Turtle (Kinosternon bauri bauri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Paradise Key Mud Turtle (Kinosternon bauri palmarum: 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:
1891 Garman, Samuel. On a tortoise found in Florida and Cuba, Cinosternon baurii. Bulletin of the Essex Institute 23:141-144
1974 Ernst, Carl H. Kinosternon baurii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (161):1-2
1983 Lamb, T. The striped mud turtle (Kinosternon bauri) in South Carolina, a confirmation through multivariate character analysis. Herpetologica 39(4):383-390
1983 Lamb, T. On the problematic identification of Kinosternon (Testudines: Kinosternidae) in Georgia, with new state localities for Kinosternon bauri. Georgia Journal of Science 41(4):115-120
1990 Lamb, Trip and John E. Lovich. Morphometric validation of the striped mud turtle (Kinosternon baurii) in the Carolinas and Virginia. Copeia 1990(3):613-618
1995 Lovich, Jeffrey E. and Trip Lamb. Morphometric similarity between the turtles Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis and K. baurii. Journal of Herpetology 29(4):621-624
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.
2001 Karl, Stephen A. and Dawn S. Wilson. Phylogeography and systematics of the mud turtle, Kinosternon baurii. Copeia 2001(3):797-801

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