Alamos mud turtle
Alamos mud turtle | |
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Conservation status | |
![]() Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Kinosternidae |
Genus: | Kinosternon |
Species: | K. alamosae |
Binomial name | |
Kinosternon alamosae (Berry & Legler, 1980)[2] | |
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The Alamos mud turtle (Kinosternon alamosae) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it occurs in the states of Sinaloa and Sonora.[2]
Description
The Alamos mud turtles are slightly less than average in size compared to other members of the same genus. Males tend to be larger than females, with matured females having an average carapace length of 95–100 mm, compared to an average of 90–120 mm with their male counterparts.[4] When males are compared to females, there are a few notable differences. Males have a much narrower carapace, a shorter plastron, a shorter plastral hind lobe, narrower plastral lobes, a shorter bridge, and a shorter interanal seam.[4]
Habitat
Alamos mud turtles prefer temporary pond habitats. Examples of such include arroyos, roadside ditches, and cattle tanks. The Alamos mud turtle also has an extraordinary thermal tolerance. Researchers have found them in shallow ponds (~10 cm deep) with temperatures reaching as high as 42 °C. Some specimen are even located in ponds that are scalding to the touch.[4]
References
- ^ Frost, D.; Hammerson, G. & Gadsden, H. (2016) [errata version of 2007 assessment]. "Kinosternon alamosae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63665A97379006. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63665A12694308.en. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ a b Rhodin, A. G. J., et al. Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated Checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status. Archived 2012-01-31 at the Wayback Machine Chelonian Research Monographs Volume 5.
- ^ Fritz, U. and Havaš, P. (2007). Checklist of Chelonians of the World. Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine Vertebrate Zoology 57(2).
- ^ a b c Iverson, J. B. (1989). Natural History of the Alamos Mud Turtle, Kinosternon alamosae (Kinosternidae). Southwestern Association of Naturalists, 34(1), 134–142. doi: 10.2307/3671819
Further reading
- Berry, J. F. and Legler, J. M. 1980. A new turtle (genus Kinosternon) from northwestern Mexico. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 325, 1–12.
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Subclass: Anapsida
- Order: Testudines
- Suborder: Cryptodira
- Superfamily: Kinosternoidea
- Family: Kinosternidae
Species of the Kinosternidae family |
- †Hoplochelys clark
- Alamos mud turtle
- Arizona mud turtle
- Central American mud turtle
- Creaser's mud turtle
- Dunn's mud turtle
- Durango mud turtle
- Eastern mud turtle
- Florida mud turtle
- Herrera's mud turtle
- Jalisco mud turtle
- Mexican mud turtle
- Oaxaca mud turtle
- Rough-footed mud turtle
- Scorpion mud turtle
- Sonora mud turtle
- Striped mud turtle
- Tabasco mud turtle
- White-lipped mud turtle
- Yellow mud turtle
- Vallarta mud turtle
- †Kinosternon arizonense
- †Kinosternon pojoaque
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