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Cora mud turtle

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Cora mud turtle
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Kinosternon
Species:
K. cora
Binomial name
Kinosternon cora
Loc-Barragán et al., 2020

The Cora mud turtle (Kinosternon cora) is a species of mud turtle endemic to western Mexico.

Description

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The Cora mud turtle is a sister species of the Vallarta mud turtle (Kinosternon vogti), with which it shares most morphological characteristics. It is distinguished from other Kinosternon species (except K. vogti) in having a reduced and weakly movable plastron, and a comparatively wider carapace. The turtle differs from K. vogti mainly in being larger, darker in colour, and having shell scutes of different shapes and dimensions.[2][3]

The Cora mud turtle is found in the Mexican states of Nayarit and Sinaloa.[4] It is named after the Cora people, a Native Mexican people who live in Nayarit.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b Loc-Barragán, Jesús A.; Reyes-Velasco, Jacobo; Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A.; Grünwald, Christoph I.; De Anaya, Myriam Venegas; Rangel-Mendoza, Judith A.; López-Luna, Marco A. (27 November 2020). "A New Species of Mud Turtle of Genus Kinosternon (Testudines: Kinosternidae) from the Pacific Coastal Plain of Northwestern Mexico". Zootaxa. 4885 (4): 509–529. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.3. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311258. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Descritta una nuova specie di tartaruga del fango: Kinosternon cora". Tartapedia (in Italian). 27 November 2020. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. ^ "¡Buenas noticias! Científicos descubren una nueva especie de tortuga mexicana". Animal MX (in Spanish). 27 November 2020. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.