Taxonavigation

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

Name

• Kinosternon herrerai Stegneger 1925
  • Holotype: USNM 61249
  • Type locality: "Xochimilco, Valley of Mexico" (in error); restricted to "La Laja, Veracruz," Mexico, by Smith and Taylor (1950: 24); and later restricted to "Tampico," Tamaulipas, Mexico, by Smith and Brandon 1968)

Synonymy

• Kinosternon herrerai Stegneger 1925
  • Cryptochelys herrerai Iverson et al. 2013
  • Kinosternon herrerai Spinks et al. 2014
  • Kinosternon herrerai TTWG 2014: 348

References

• 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
• Smith,H.M. & Taylor,E.H. 1950. An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 199: 1–253
• Spinks, Phillip Q.; Robert C. Thomson, Müge Gidiş, H. Bradley Shaffer 2014. Multilocus phylogeny of the New-World mud turtles (Kinosternidae) supports the traditional classification of the group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 76: 254–260.
• Stejneger ,L.H. 1925. New species and subspecies of American turtles. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 15 (20): 462–463

• 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.