Distribution
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Continent: Middle-America South-America
Distribution: Mexico (CS Veracruz, Oaxaca ?, Tabasco ?, Chiapas ?, Yucatan),
Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador ?, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, N Peru
postinguinale: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, N Peru;
Type locality: Sipurio (East coast of Costa Rica)
spurrelli: W Colombia;
Type locality: Peña Lisa, W Colombia
Type locality: "N. Orlean; Mexique; Rio Sumasinta (Amer. centr.)"; restricted to "Rio Usumacinta, El Peten, Guatemala," by Schmidt (1941:488); in error further restricted to "Cosamaloapam, Veracruz," Mexico, by Smith and Taylor (1950:26).
White-lipped mud turtle
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The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.
Geographic range
Kinosternon leucostomum is found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2]
Subspecies
- Northern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. leucostomum (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
- Southern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. postinguinale (Cope, 1887)
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Kinosternon.
Etymology
The synonym, Cinosternon spurrelli Boulenger, 1913, which is a synonym of Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale, was named in honor of British zoologist Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell.[3]
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White-lipped mud turtle: Brief Summary
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The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.
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