Class:
Reptilia
Family:
Emydidae
Common Name:
Scorpion Mud Turtle
Genus:
Kinosternon
Species Name:
scorpioides
About The Scorpion Mud Turtle
Continent: Middle-America South-America
Distribution: Mexico (CS Veracruz, Oaxaca ?, Tabasco ?, Chiapas ?, Yucatan), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador ?, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, N Peru postinguinale: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, N Peru;
Type locality: Sipurio (East coast of Costa Rica) spurrelli: W Colombia;
Type locality: Peña Lisa, W Colombia
Type locality: "N. Orlean; Mexique; Rio Sumasinta (Amer. centr.)"; restricted to "Rio Usumacinta, El Peten, Guatemala," by Schmidt (1941:488); in error further restricted to "Cosamaloapam, Veracruz," Mexico, by Smith and Taylor (1950:26).
Rights Holder: Peter Uetz
Trips Where Observed
Mexico to Panama
Member Lifelists
North America
World
Sites Where Observed
