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Kinosternon baurii (Striped Mud Turtle)

Synonyms: Cinosternon baurii; Cinosternum baurii; Kinosternon bauri palmarum

Wikipedia Abstract

The striped mud turtle (Kinosternon baurii) is a species of turtle endemic to the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Kinosternon baurii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  143 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Female Weight [1]  143 grams
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 4 months
Male Maturity [2]  1 year 10 months
Gestation [1]  3 months 26 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  50 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Everglades United States Neotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Middle Atlantic coastal forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Southeastern conifer forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Atlantic Coastal Plain Bald-cypress - Water Tupelo Blackwater Small Stream Swamp Forest United States (North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia)
Bald-cypress - Tupelo Brownwater Floodplain Forest United States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, Alabama)
Bald-cypress Floodplain Forest United States (Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Missouri, Texas)
Water Tupelo Swamp Forest United States (Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia)

Predators

Rostrhamus sociabilis (Snail Kite)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Polystomoidella whartoni[4]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3ALTERNATIVE FOODS OF A DIET SPECIALIST, THE SNAIL KITE, STEVEN R. BEISSINGER, The Auk 107: 327-333. April 1990
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0