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Kinosternon subrubrum (Eastern Mud Turtle, Common Mud Turtle; Common mud turtle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum) or common mud turtle is a common species of turtle endemic to the United States.
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Infraspecies

Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis (Mississippi mud turtle)
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri (Florida mud turtle)
Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum (Eastern mud turtle)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  155 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Female Weight [1]  152 grams
Egg Length [1]  0.984 inches (25 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.63 inches (16 mm)
Gestation [2]  76 days
Litter Size [2]  4
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  40 years
Female Maturity [2]  5 years
Male Maturity [2]  4 years

Ecoregions

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 - Water Tupelo Floodplain Forest United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi)
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

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[3]

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
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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