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Sternotherus odoratus (LATREILLE, 1802)

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Higher TaxaKinosternidae, Testudines (turtles) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Common Musk Turtle, Stinkpot Turtle
G: Gewöhnliche Moschusschildkröte 
SynonymTestudo odorata LATREILLE in SONNINI & LATREILLE 1802: 122
Testudo glutinata DAUDIN 1802
Terrapene boscii MERREM 1820
Sternothaerus [sic] odoratus BELL 1825
Staurotypus Odoratus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835: 358
Sternothaerus odoratus — HALLOWELL 1856: 106
Aromochelys odorata — GRAY 1856: 266
Kinosternum guttatum LE CONTE 1854
Ozotheca tristycha AGASSIZ 1857
Cinosternum odoratum BOULENGER 1889
Aromochelys odorata — LOENNBERG 1894
Aromochelys odoratus — RHOADS 1895: 384
Aromochelys tristycha — BRIMLEY 1910: 18
Sternotherus odoratus — CONANT & BERRY 1978
Kinosternon odoratum — LINER 1994
Sternotherus odoratus — CONANT & COLLINS 1991
Sternotherus odoratus — CROTHER 2000
Kinosternon odoratum — BONIN et al 2006 
DistributionCanada (S Ontario, Quebec),
USA ((Rhode Island, New England, coastal Maine, S New Hampshire, Vermont, S New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, SE Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, S Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, E Kansas, E Oklahoma, C/E Texas),
Mexico (Chihuahua)

Type locality: "les eaux dormantes de la Caroline"; restricted to "vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina," U.S.A., by Schmidt (1953:87). Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
Types 
CommentReproduction: oviparous with 3-8 eggs. 
References
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  • Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp.
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  • Brimley, C. S. 1910. Records of some reptiles and batrachians from the Southeastern United States Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 23: 9-18 - get paper here
  • Burkett, Ray D. 1966. An extension in the known range in Texas for the stinkpot turtle, Sternothaerus odoratus Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 69 (3-4): 361
  • Burt, Charles E. 1935. Further records of the ecology and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the middle west American Midland Naturalist 16 (3): 311-336 - get paper here
  • Casper, Gary S. 1997. Geographic Distribution. Sternotherus odoratus Herpetological Review 28 (4): 209
  • Conant, Roger 1938. The Reptiles of Ohio American Midland Naturalist 20 (1): 1-200 - get paper here
  • Conant, Roger; Berry, James F. 1978. Turtles of the family Kinosternidae in the Southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico: Identification and distribution. American Museum Novitates (2642): 1-18 - get paper here
  • Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
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