Published May 18, 2023
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Sternotherus carinatus
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Description
Sternotherus carinatus (Gray, 1856) — Non-native; Introduced.
Razor-backed Musk Turtle
Singapore records.
Sternotherus carinatum —T.Y. Goh & O’Riordan, 2007: 98.—T.H. Ng & K.K.P. Lim, 2010: 126 (Lower Peirce Reservoir).—D.C.J. Yeo & C.S.W. Chia, 2010: 35.
Remarks. On 1 March 2009, one individual of S. carinatus was recorded in the stream below the Hevea Trail in LPF (Ng & Lim 2010). Sternotherus carinatus is native to the southern United States (TTWG 2021).
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Family Platysternidae Gray, 1869 (1 species)
Genus Platysternon Gray 1831 (1 species)
Notes
Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 248, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Kinosternidae
- Genus
- Sternotherus
- Species
- carinatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sternotherus carinatus (Gray, 1856) sec. Figueroa, Low & Lim, 2023
References
- Goh, T. Y. & O'Riordan, R. M. (2007) Are tortoises and freshwater turtles still traded illegally as pets in Singapore? Oryx, 41 (1), 97 - 100. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 003060530700155 X