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

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Type: Staurotypus

Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Staurotypinae in the database

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