Dunn's mud turtle

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Dunn's mud turtle
Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species:
K. dunni
Binomial name
Kinosternon dunni
Schmidt, 1947[2]

Dunn's mud turtle (Kinosternon dunni ),[1] also known as the Colombian mud turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The turtle's habitat is fresh water, swamps and slow rivers.[3]

Etymology[]

The epithet or specific name, dunni, honors Emmett Reid Dunn, an American herpetologist.[4]

Geographic range[]

K. dunni is endemic to Colombia.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Rhodin 2010, p. 000.98
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 252. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. ^ "Kinosternon dunni".
  4. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon dunni, p. 77).

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