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Last update: 28 March, 2004

A genus containing two neotropical species.

Staurotypus Wagler, 1830
 
Staurotypus salvinii (Gray, 1864)
Claudius salvinii (Gray, 1864)
Claudius severus Cope, 1872
Staurotypus biporcatus Gadow, 1905 Nomen Nudum
Staurotypus marmoratus Fischer, 1872
Distribution: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.
Staurotypus triporcatus (Wiegmann, 1828)
Claudius pictus Cope, 1872
Terrapene triporcata Wiegmann, 1828
Distribution: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
Literature
Bahena-Basave, H. 1995. Geographic Distribution. Staurotypus triporcatus. Herpetol. Rev., 26(1): 43.
Buskirk, J.R. 1997. New Locality Records for Freshwater Turtles from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Chel. Conserv. Biol., 2(3): 415-416.
Ernst, C.H. & R.W. Barbour. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and London, 314 pp.
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.
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.