White-lipped mud turtle

White-lipped mud turtle
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Kinosternidae
Subfamily:	Kinosterninae
Genus:	Kinosternon
Species:	K. leucostomum
Binomial name
Kinosternon leucostomum (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
Synonyms
Kinosternon leucostomum leucostomum Cinosternon leucostomum A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851 Kinosternum leucostomum — LeConte, 1854 Kinosternon leucostomum — Gray, 1856 Cinosternum leucostomum — Agassiz, 1857 Thyrosternum leucostomum — Agassiz, 1857 Swanka maculata Gray, 1869 Swanka leucostoma — Gray, 1870 Cinosternum brevigulare Günter, 1885 Cinosternum cobanum Günter, 1885 Cinosternon cobanum — Atkinson, 1907 Kinsternon leucostomum — , 1934 Kinosternon mopanum Neill, 1965 Kinosternon leucostoma — Tryon, 1975 Kinosternon leucostomum leucostomum — Berry, 1979 Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale Cinosternum brevigulare Cope, 1885 Cinosternum postinguinale Cope, 1887 (nomen novum) Cinosternon brevigulare — Atkinson, 1907 Cinosternum spurrelli Boulenger, 1913 Kinosternon postinguinale — Schmidt, 1946 Kinosternon spurelli [sic] Schmidt, 1946 (ex errore) Kinosternon spurrelli — Mertens & Wermuth, 1955 Kinosternon postinguinal [sic] Legler, 1965 (ex errore) Kinosternon leucostomum spurrelli — Pritchard, 1979 Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale — Berry, 1979 Kinosternon leucostomum spurelli — Rudloff, 1990 Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinde [sic] Nöllert, 1992 (ex errore)

The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.

Kinosternon leucostomum is found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Kinosternon.

The synonym, Cinosternon spurrelli Boulenger, 1913, which is a synonym of Kinosternon leucostomum postinguinale, was named in honor of British zoologist Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell.

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