Creaser's mud turtle

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Creaser's mud turtle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species:
K. creaseri
Binomial name
Kinosternon creaseri

Creaser's mud turtle (Kinosternon creaseri) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to the Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico.

Geographic range

K. creaseri is found in the Mexican states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of K. creaseri is ponds, both permanent and temporary, in forest, shrubland, and freshwater wetlands.[1]

Behavior

K. creaseri aestivates most of the year, and is only active during the rainy season, which occurs in June through October.[1]

Reproduction

K. creaseri is oviparous.[1][3] Clutch size is one or two eggs, and each female lays more than one clutch per year.[1] Sex of the hatchlings is determined by temperature.[3]

Etymology

The specific name, creaseri, is in honor of American zoologist Edwin Phillip Creaser (1907–1981).[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e van Dijk, P.P.; Lee, J.; Calderón Mandujano, R. (2007). "Kinosternon creaseri (errata version published in 2016)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 251–252. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001.
  3. ^ a b c Species Kinosternon creaseri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  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 creaseri, p. 61).

Further reading

  • Hartweg NE (1934). "Description of a new kinosternid from Yucatan". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (277): 1–2. (Kinosternon creaseri, new species).



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