Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Kinosternon louisianae Baur, 1893
[= Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis Gray, 1856; fide, Stejneger and Barbour, 1917:112, Iverson, 1977b:193.2]
Baur, 1893b, Am. Nat. 27(319):676.
Holotype: USNM 15527 (alcoholic adult female, CL 100 mm), collected by Robert W. Shufeldt, 1883.
Type Locality: “New Orleans, La.” [Louisiana].
Etymology: The name louisianae refers to the state of Louisiana.
Kinosternon murrayi Glass and Hartweg, 1951
[= Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi Glass and Hartweg, 1951; fide, Schmidt, 1953:89, Iverson, 1985:361.2]
Glass and Hartweg, 1951, Copeia 1951(1):50, fig. 1.
Paratype: USNM 15860 (alcoholic adult male and plaster cast of shell, CL “145.7” mm), Marfa, Presidio County, Texas; collected by Vernon O. Bailey, 24 Jan 1890.
Type Locality: “Harper Ranch, 37 miles south of Marfa, Presidio County, Texas.”
Other Type Material: Holotype: TCWC 650; Paratypes: UMMZ 101294, and UMMZ S-1083.
Etymology: The name murrayi is a patronym honoring Dr. Leo T. Murray.
- bibliographic citation
- Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626
