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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Reptiles
  5. Turtles and Tortoises
  6. American Mud and Musk Turtles
  7. Kinosternine Turtles

subfamily

Kinosternine Turtles

Kinosterninae

Includes
11 native 1 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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  • Mud Turtles 6 native
  • Musk Turtles 5 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native kinosternine turtles All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Eastern Musk Turtle Sternotherus odoratus 15,099 observations
  • Eastern Mud Turtle Kinosternon subrubrum 8,871 observations
  • Striped Mud Turtle Kinosternon baurii 4,106 observations
  • Yellow Mud Turtle Kinosternon flavescens 1,846 observations
  • Razor-backed Musk Turtle Sternotherus carinatus 1,251 observations
  • Sonoran Mud Turtle Kinosternon sonoriense 1,226 observations
  • Stripe-necked Musk Turtle Sternotherus peltifer 832 observations
  • Loggerhead Musk Turtle Sternotherus minor 784 observations
  • Chihuahuan Mud Turtle Kinosternon hirtipes 491 observations
  • Intermediate Musk Turtle Sternotherus intermedius 337 observations
  • Florida Mud Turtle Kinosternon steindachneri 120 observations
  • Arizona Mud Turtle Kinosternon stejnegeri 60 observations
  • Flattened Musk Turtle Sternotherus depressus 18 observations

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