Rough-footed mud turtle

Rough-footed mud turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Cryptodira
Family:Kinosternidae
Genus:Kinosternon
Species: K. hirtipes
Binomial name
Kinosternon hirtipes
(Wagler, 1830)
Synonyms[2]
Kinosternon hirtipes hirtipes
  • Cinosternon hirtipes
    Wagler, 1830 (nomen nudum)
  • Cinosternon hirtipes
    Wagler, 1833
  • Clemmys (Cinosternon) hirtipes
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • Cinostermon [sic] hirtipes
    — Gray, 1844
  • Kinosternum hirtipes
    — LeConte, 1854
  • Kinosternon hirtipes
    — Gray, 1856
  • Cinosternum hirtipes
    — Agassiz, 1857
  • Thyrosternum hirtipes
    — Agassiz, 1857
  • Ozotheca hirtipes
    — LeConte, 1859
  • Chinosternum [sic] hirtipes
    — Caballero & Caballero, 1938
  • Kinosternon [hirtipes] hirtipes
    — Schmidt, 1953
  • Kynosternon [sic] hirtipes
    — Lopez, 1975
  • Kinosternon hertipes [sic]
    Semmler, Seidel & Williams, 1977
    (ex errore)
Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense
  • Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense
    Pritchard, 1979 (nomen nudum)
  • Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense
    Iverson, 1981
  • Kinosternon hirtipes chapalense [sic]
    Obst, 1996 (ex errore)
Kinosternon hirtipes magdalense
  • Kinosternon hirtipes magdalense
    Iverson, 1981
Kinosternon hirtipes megacephalum
  • Kinosternon hirtipes megacephalum
    Iverson, 1981
  • Kinosternon hirtipes megalocephala [sic]
    Artner, 2003 (ex errore)
  • Kinosternon megacephalum
    — Joseph-Ouni, 2004
Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi
  • Kinosternon murrayi
    Glass & Hartweg, 1951
  • Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi
    — Schmidt, 1953
  • Kinosternon hirtipes
    murryi     [sic]
    Ashton, 1976 (ex errore)
Kinosternon hirtipes tarascense
  • Kinosternon hirtipes tarascense
    Iverson, 1981

The rough-footed mud turtle (Kinosternon hirtipes) [1] is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Geographic range

K. hirtipes is found in the United States in Texas, and it is also found in Mexico in the Mexican states: Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Mexico DF, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacán, Morelos, and Zacatecas.

Subspecies

  • Valley of Mexico mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes hirtipes (Wagler, 1830)
  • Lake Chapala mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense Iverson, 1981
  • San Juanico mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes magdalense Iverson, 1981
  • Viesca mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes megacephalum Iverson, 1981 (Extinct)
  • Mexican Plateau mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi Glass & Hartweg, 1951
  • Patzcuarco mud turtle – Kinosternon hirtipes tarascense Iverson, 1981

Etymology

The subspecific name, murrayi, is in honor of American zoologist Leo Tildon Murray (1902–1958).[3]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/63670/0
  2. ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 252–254. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi, p. 185).
  • Wagler J (1830). Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugthiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. (Cinosternon [sic] hirtipes, new species, p. 137). (in German and Latin). .


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