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Florida Mud Turtle
Kinosternon steindachneri (Siebenrock, 1906)

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

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Mud Tortoise (Kinosternon pennsylvanicum: Gray, John E. 1856. Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). Taylor and Francis, London, England. 79pp.); Florida Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri: 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

Pertinent LIterature:
1998 Walker, DeEtte, Paul E. Moler, Kurt A. Buhlmann, and John C. Avise. Phylogeographic patterns in Kinosternon subrubrum and K. bauri based on mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis. Herpetologica 54(2):174-184
2012 Bourque, Jason R. An extinct Mud Turtle of the Kinosternon flavescens Group (Testudines, Kinosternidae) from the Middle Miocene (Late Barstovian) of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(1):68-81
2013 Iverson, John B., Minh Le, and Colleen Ingram. Molecular phylogenetics of the mud and musk turtle family Kinosternidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69():929-939
2016 Bourque, Jason R. New mud turtles (Kinosternidae, Kinosternon) from the middle-late Miocene of the United States. Journal of Paleontology 89():821-844.

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