White-lipped mud turtle

Kinosternon leucostomum

The white-lipped mud turtle is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.
White-lipped mud turtle, Tumaco, Colombia Tentative ID. Found by Manuel in a shallow stream as he was trying to find a poison frog.
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Naming

*Northern white-lipped mud turtle – "K. l. leucostomum"
⤷ Southern white-lipped mud turtle – "K. l. postinguinale"

"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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Status: Vulnerable
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderTestudines
FamilyKinosternidae
GenusKinosternon
SpeciesK. leucostomum
Photographed in
Colombia