Kinosternidae
 
American Mud and Musk Turtles
Schlammschildkröten
Slamskildpadder
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Contents:
(as of 31st December, 2022) | Endemicity:
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4 genera of which none are endemic | 0%  100%
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33 species of which 18 (54.5%) are endemic | 0%  100%
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Remarks:
Includes two subfamilies (Kinosterninae, Staurotypinae), which were separated and raised to family status by Iverson, Le & Ingram (2013),
although some authors had already regarded them as such
(e.g., Bickham & Carr 1983; King & Burke 1989; Vetter 2005; Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004).
This taxonomy has not been met with general acceptance, so the traditional classification as a single family with two subfamilies is retained herein, following several
subsequent works (e.g., Vitt & Caldwell 2014; Crawford, Parham, Sellas, Faircloth, Glenn, Papenfuss, Henderson, Hansen & Simison 2015;
Rhodin, Iverson, Bour, Fritz, Georges, Shaffer & Dijk 2017; Shaffer, McCartney-Melstad, Near, Mount & Spinks 2017).
Distribution:
North America, Central America, South America.
Reported from:
Argentina,
Belize,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Canada,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Ecuador,
El Salvador,
French Guiana,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Surinam,
Trinidad & Tobago,
USA,
Venezuela.
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