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Kinosternon steindachneri SIEBENROCK, 1906

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Higher TaxaKinosternidae (Kinosterninae), Kinosternoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Florida Mud Turtle 
SynonymCinosternum steindachneri SIEBENROCK 1906: 727
Cinosternum steindachneri — BRIMLEY 1910: 18
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri CARR 1940
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri — SCHMIDT 1953: 90
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 47
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri — CROTHER 2000
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri — RHODIN et al. 2010
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri — PARKER in CAMPBELL et al. 2012
Kinosternon steindachneri — IVERSON et al. 2013
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri — TTWG 2014: 351
Kinosternon steindachneri — TTWG 2017
Kinosternon steindachneri — TTWG 2021
Kinosternon steindachneri — TTWG 2025 
DistributionUSA (Florida)

Type locality: Orlando, Florida.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.22.23-24 
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CommentSynonymy: after Schmidt 1953: 90.

Habitat: freshwater (swamps, quiet rivers)

Distribution: see map in TTWG 2025. 
EtymologyNamed after Franz Steindachner (1834-1919), Austrian zoologist. 
References
  • 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
  • Carr, Archie Fairly 1940. A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publication, Biological Science Series 3 (1): 1-118 - 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.
  • Dodd, C. Kenneth; 2023. Notes on Kinosternon steindachneri in a North Florida Sandhill Community. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Dec 2023 Vol. 22, No. 2: 233-240 - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here
  • IVERSON, JOHN B. 2022. KINOSTERNON STEINDACHNERI (Florida Mud Turtle). REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT. Herpetological Review 53 (2): 311–312.
  • Iverson, John B.; Minh Le, Colleen Ingram 2013. Molecular phylogenetics of the mud and musk turtle family Kinosternidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 929–939 - get paper here
  • Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th ed. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Chicago, 280 pp. - get paper here
  • Siebenrock, F. 1906. Eine neue Cinosternum-Art aus Florida. Zool. Anz. 30 (Oct. 16): 727-728 - get paper here
  • TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour] 2014. Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014 - get paper here
  • TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. 2025. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 10:1-575 - get paper here
  • TTWG; Anders G.J. Rhodin, John B. iverson, Roger Bour, Uwe Fritz, Arthur GeoRges, H. BRadley Shaffer, and Peter Paul van Dijk 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Pritchard, P.C.H., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 7:1–292. doi: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017 - get paper here
  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J.; van Dijk, P.P.; Iverson, J.B. & Shaffer, H.B. [turtle taxonomy working group] 2010. Turtles of the World, 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v3.2010 - get paper here
 
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