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Sonora Mud Turtle
Kinosternon sonoriense LeConte, 1854

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Henry's Mud Turtle (Cinosternum henrici: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Le Conte's Mud Turtle (Cinosternum sonoriense: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Henry's Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Sonoran Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1854 LeConte, John. Description of four new species of Kinosternum. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7():180-190

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