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Last update: 28 March, 2004

A monotypic genus of neotropical turtles

Claudius Cope, 1865
(Type = Claudius angustatus Cope, 1865)
Claudius angustatus Cope, 1865
Claudius megalocephalus Bocourt, 1868
Distribution: Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.
Literature
Dodd, C.K., Jr. 1978. A Note on the Defensive Posturing of Turtles from Belize, Central America. Herpetol. Rev., 9(1): 11-12.
Ernst, C.H. & R.W. Barbour. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and London, 314 pp.
Flores-Villela, O.A. & G.R. Zug. 1995. Reproductive Biology of the Chopontil, Claudius angustatus (Testudines: Kinosternidae), in Southern Veracruz, México. Chel. Conserv. Biol., 1(3): 181-186.
Grychta, U. & R. Grychta. 1994. Haltung, Paarungsverhalten, Eiablage und Nachzucht der Großkopf-Schlammschildkröte Claudius angustatus Cope, 1865. Sauria, 16(4): 11-14.
Hutchison, J.H. & D.M. Bramble. 1981. Homology of the Plastral Scales of the Kinosternidae and Related Turtles. Herpetologica, 37(2): 73-85.
Iverson, J.B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Richmond, IN: Privately printed, 363 pp.
Iverson, J.B. 1998. Molecules, Morphology, and Mud Turtle Phylogenetics (Family Kinosternidae). Chel. Conserv. Biol., 3(1): 113-117.
Mandujano, R.C., J.R. Cedeño-Vázquez & C. Pozo. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Claudius angustatus. Herpetol. Rev., 32(3): 191.
Pauler, I. 1981. Pleje og opdræt af Claudius angustatus. NHF, 24(9): 238-242.
Vogt, R.C. & O. Flores-Villela. 1992. Effects of Incubation Temperature on Sex Determination in a Community of Neotropical Freshwater Turtles in Southern Mexico. Herpetologica, 48(3): 265-270.