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Loggerhead Musk Turtle
Sternotherus minor (Agassiz, 1857)

Current SSAR Comments:
Rhodin et al. (2021, Chelonian Research Monographs (8): 1–472) elevated S. m. peltifer based on Scott et al. (2018, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120: 1–15) and recognized no subspecies within S. minor.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Loggerhead Musk Turtle (Sternotherus carinatus minor: 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:
1857 Agassiz, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Volume 1. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Massachusets. 452pp.
2018 Scott, Peter A., Travis C Glenn, and Leslie J Rissler. Resolving taxonomic turbulence and uncovering cryptic diversity in the Musk Turtles (Sternotherus) using robust demographic modeling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120():1-15
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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