Subfamily Staurotypinae Gray 1869 (mud turtle)
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Alternative spelling: Staurotypidae
Parent taxon: Kinosternidae according to J. H. Hutchison 1991
See also Baur 1893, Kuhn 1966 and van Dijk et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Baltemys, Kinosterninae, Kinosternon, Leiochelys, Staurotypus, Xenochelys, Yelmochelys
Subtaxa: Claudius
Type: Staurotypus
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Staurotypinae in the database