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Arizona Mud Turtle
Kinosternon stejnegeri (Hartweg, 1938)

Current SSAR Comments:
McCord (2016, Historical Biology 28: 310–315) recommended restricting Kinosternon arizonense to fossil material and resurrecting the name K. stejnegeri for extant populations. Joyce and Bourque (2016, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57: 57–95) accepted this arrangement. Rhodin et al. (2021, Chelonian Research Monographs (8): 1–472) list K. stejnegeri as the extant species, with K. arizonense considered a separate extinct species from the Pliocene-Pleistocene.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Sonora Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense: 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:
1938 Hartweg, Norman. Kinosternon flavescens stejnegeri,a new turtle from northern Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (371):1-5
2016 McCord, R. D. What is Kinosternon arizonense? Historical Biology 28(1-2):310-315
2016 Joyce, Walter G. and Jason R. Bourque. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the Clade Pan-Kinosternoidea. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57(1):57–95
2021 Rhodin, Anders G. J., John B. Iverson, Roger Bour, Uwe Fritz, Arthur Georges, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Peter Paul van Dijk. Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: First checklist and review of extinct pleistocene and holocene chelonians. Chelonian Research Monographs (8):1-472

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