| 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. |
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| 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. |
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