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Sternotherus carinatus (Razorback Musk Turtle)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

The razor-backed musk turtle (Sternotherus carinatus) is a species of turtles native to the southern United States. No subspecies are recognized.
View Wikipedia Record: Sternotherus carinatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  248 grams
Birth Weight [1]  4 grams
Female Weight [1]  248 grams
Female Maturity [1]  6 years
Male Maturity [1]  6 years
Gestation [1]  3 months 19 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  29 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park II 616880 Texas, United States
Chickasaw National Recreation Area V 7025 Oklahoma, United States
Hot Springs National Park II 5740 Arkansas, United States
Jean Lafitte National Hist. Park & Preserve National Historical Park II 17686 Louisiana, United States
Little River National Wildlife Refuge   Oklahoma, United States

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hapalorhynchus stunkardi[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
♦ 3Gibson, 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