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Stripe-necked Musk Turtle
Sternotherus peltifer Smith and Glass, 1947

Current SSAR Comments:
Bourque (2016) suggested the elevation of this taxon to species status based on the work of Iverson et al. (2013, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 929–939) and Bourque and Schubert (2015, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.885441)). Additionally, Guyer (2015, Turtles of Alabama. University of Alabama Press) recommended elevating this taxon based on the work of Walker et al. (1995, Molecular Ecology 4: 365–373). Elevated in Rhodin et al. (2021, Chelonian Research Monographs (8): 1–472) based on Scott et al. (2018, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120: 1–15).

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Tennessee Musk Turtle (Sternotherus carinatus peltifer: 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:
1947 Smith, Hobart M. and Bryan P. Glass. A new musk turtle for southeastern United States. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 37(11):22-24
1995 Walker, D., V. J. Burke, I. Barak, and J. C. Avise. A comparison of mtDNA restriction sites vs. control region sequences on phylogeographic assessment of the musk turtle (Sternotherus minor). Molecular Ecology 4():365-373
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
2015 Guyer, Craig, M. A. Bailey, and Robert H. Mount. Turtles of Alabama. Univerisity of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 288pp.
2015 Bourque, Jason R. and B. W. Schubert. Fossil musk turtles (Kinosternidae, Sternotherus) from the Miocene-early Pliocene (Hemphillean) of Tennessee and Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.885441):
2016 Bourque, Jason R. New mud turtles (Kinosternidae, Kinosternon) from the middle-late Miocene of the United States. Journal of Paleontology 89():821-844.
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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