Kinosternoidea
| Kinosternoidea | |
|---|---|
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| Common musk turtle, a species of the superfamily Kinosternoidea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Clade: | Americhelydia |
| Superfamily: | Kinosternoidea Joyce, Parham, and Gauthier 2004[1] |
| Families | |
Kinosternoidea is a superfamily of aquatic turtles, which included two families: Dermatemydidae, and Kinosternidae.
These are nowadays usually considered independent families of the Trionychia, among which they represent very plesiomorphic members which share a few peculiarly advanced traits. These apomorphies coupled with the overall "primitiveness" was what misled scientists as to their actual relationships.
Classification
- Family Dermatemydidae[1]
- Genus Dermatemys[1]
- Genus Baptemys[2]
- Family Kinosternidae[1]
- Genus Hoplochelys[2]
- Subfamily Staurotypinae[1]
- Genus *Claudius[1]
- Genus Staurotypus[1]
- Subfamily Kinosterninae[1]
- Genus Kinosternon[1]
- Genus Sternotherus[1]
Past classification
The entirely unrelated big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) was previously included in classification.[2]
References
- Bibliography
- Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.
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