Taxonavigation

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

Name

• Kinosternon flavescens Agassiz 1857:430
  • Lectotype: USNM 50
  • Type locality: Waco, Texas (restricted by Schmidt 1953)

Synonymy

• Platythyra flavescens Agassiz 1857:430
  • Cinosternon flavescens Agassiz 1857:260
  • Cinosternum flavescens Cope 1875
  • Kinosternon flavescens flavescens Hartweg 1938
  • Kinosternon flavescens spooneri Smith 1951:195
  • Kinosternon flavescens flavescens Wermuth & Mertens 1977:6
  • Kinosternon flavescens spooneri Wermuth & Mertens 1977:6
  • Kinosternon flavescens Stebbins 1985:98
  • Kinosternon flavescens spooneri Conant & Collins 1991:49
  • Kinosternon flavescens flavescens Conant & Collins 1991:49
  • Kinosternon flavescens Conant & Collins 1991:48
  • Kinosternon flavescens TTWG 2014:347

References

• Agassiz, Louis. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. vol. 1. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, lii + 452 pp.
• Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
• Hartweg, Norman. 1938. Kinosternon flavescens stejnegeri, a new turtle from northern Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (371): 1–5
• Smith, Philip W. 1951. A new frog and a new turtle from the western Illinois sand prairies. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 9 (10): 189–199.

• 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.