Kinosterninae

Kinosterninae
Sternotherus odoratus
stinkpot or common musk turtle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Kinosternidae
Subfamily:
Agassiz, 1857
Genera

Kinosterninae is a subfamily of the family Kinosternidae, a family of aquatic turtles. Kinosterninae contains the genera Kinosternon and Sternotherus, which are native to much of the United States and northern Mexico. There are 27 species from 4 genera in the two subfamilies Staurotypinae and Kinosterninae. [1]

Comparison between the plastrons of Sternotherus and Kinosternon

References

  1. ^ Animal Diversity Web: Family Kinosternidae, by Keith Pecor.


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