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White-lipped mud turtle
Species of turtle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.
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Etymology
The synonym, Cinosternon spurrelli Boulenger, 1913, which is a synonym of Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale, was named in honor of British zoologist Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell.[2]
Geographic range
Kinosternon leucostomum is found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[3]
- In Ecuador
- In Ecuador
- In Panama
- In Costa Rica
- Plastron, in Costa Rica
- Plastron, in Belize
- Plastron, in Belize
- Plastron, in Ecuador
Subspecies
- Northern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. leucostomum (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
- Southern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. postinguinale (Cope, 1887)
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Kinosternon.
- K. l. postinguinale in Colombia
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