Taxonavigation

Superfamilia: Chelydroidea
Familia: Kinosternidae
Subfamilia: Kinosterninae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species: Kinosternon acutum

Name

• Kinosternon acutum (Gray, 1831)
  • Holotype: BMNH 1947.3.4.58
  • Type locality: Not reported; Gray (1844:33) listed data with holotype as "Central America". Restricted to Belize by Schmidt (1941:476), and later to "Cosamaloapam, Veracruz," Mexico, by Smith and Taylor (1950:23).

Synonymy

• Kinosternon scorpioides var. acuta Gray 1831:34
  • Cinosternum berendtianum Cope 1865
  • Cinosternon effeldtii Peters 1873:603 - Lectotype: ZMB 7868; designated by Fritz et al. 1994
  • Kinosternon acutum Stejneger 1941
  • Cryptochelys acuta Iverson et al. 2013
  • Kinosternon acuta Spinks et al. 2014
  • Kinosternon acutum TTWG 2014

References

• Gray, J. E. 1831. Synopsis Reptilium or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I: Cataphracta, tortoises, crocodiles, and enaliosaurians. Treuttel, Wurz & Co., London, 85 pp.
• Fritz, U.; Obst, F.J. & Günther,R. 1994. Kritischer Typenkatalog der Schildkrötensammlung (Reptilia: Testudines) des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 70: 157–175.
• Iverson, John B.; Minh Le, Colleen Ingram 2013. Molecular phylogenetics of the mud and musk turtle family Kinosternidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 929–939

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-5323-5026-9). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

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