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Lifespan, longevity, and ageing

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Maximum longevity: 19.2 years (captivity)

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Distribution

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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: PeÃ±a 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).

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White-lipped mud turtle

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The white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) is a species of mud turtle in the family Kinosternidae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.

Geographic range

Kinosternon leucostomum is found in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.^[2]

Subspecies

Northern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. leucostomum (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
Southern white-lipped mud turtle – K. l. postinguinale (Cope, 1887)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Kinosternon.

Etymology

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.^[3]

References

^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 254–255. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755. S2CID 87809001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
^ "Kinosternon leucostomum ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinosternon spurrelli, p. 250).

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White-lipped mud turtle: Brief Summary