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Kinosternon flavescens (Yellow mud turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Taxonomy
Platythyra flavescens was named by Agassiz (1857). It is extant.

It was recombined as Kinosternon flavescens by Cahn (1931), Fichter (1969) and van Dijk et al. (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Platythyra flavescens Agassiz p. 430
1875Cinosternum flavescens Cope p. 52
1931Kinosternon flavescens Cahn p. 122
1969Kinosternon flavescens Fichter p. 117
2014Kinosternon flavescens van Dijk et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
superfamilyTrionychoideaFitzinger 1826
familyKinosternoidea()
familyKinosternidae()
genusKinosternonvon Spix 1824
speciesflavescens()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Kinosternon flavescens Agassiz 1857 [Yellow mud turtle]
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Diagnosis
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