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Flattened Musk Turtle
Sternotherus depressus Tinkle and Webb, 1955

Current SSAR Comments:
Scott and Rissler (2015, Biological Conservation 192: 294–303) reported a decline in the historical range of S. depressus and unidirectional mtDNA introgression from S. peltifer. Rhodin et al. (2021, Chelonian Research Monographs (8): 1–472) noted that this hybridization is changing the morphology of S. depressus and threatens its continued distinction.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.10.13.21.19)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1955 Tinkle, Donald W. and Robert G. Webb. A new species of Sternotherus with a discussion of the Sternotherus carinatus complex (Chelonia, Kinosternidae). Tulane Studies in Zoology 3(3):53
2015 Scott, P. A. and L. J. Rissler. Integrating dynamic occupancy modeling and genetics to infer the status of the imperiled Flattened Musk Turtle. Biological Conservation 192():294-303
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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