Creaser's mud turtle
Creaser's mud turtle | |
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Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Kinosternidae |
Genus: | Kinosternon |
Species: | K. creaseri |
Binomial name | |
Kinosternon creaseri Hartweg, 1934[2] |
Creaser's mud turtle (Kinosternon creaseri) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to the Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico.
Geographic range
K. creaseri is found in the Mexican states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan.[3]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of K. creaseri is ponds, both permanent and temporary, in forest, shrubland, and freshwater wetlands.[1]
Behavior
K. creaseri aestivates most of the year, and is only active during the rainy season, which occurs in June through October.[1]
Reproduction
K. creaseri is oviparous.[1][3] Clutch size is one or two eggs, and each female lays more than one clutch per year.[1] Sex of the hatchlings is determined by temperature.[3]
Etymology
The specific name, creaseri, is in honor of American zoologist Edwin Phillip Creaser (1907–1981).[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e van Dijk, P.P.; Lee, J.; Calderón Mandujano, R. (2016) [errata version of 2007 assessment]. "Kinosternon creaseri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T11006A97380420. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T11006A3239182.en. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 251–252. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
- ^ a b c Species Kinosternon creaseri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon creaseri, p. 61).
Further reading
- Hartweg NE (1934). "Description of a new kinosternid from Yucatan". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (277): 1–2. (Kinosternon creaseri, new species).
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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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