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Kinosternon flavescens (Yellow Mud Turtle)

Synonyms: Cinosternon flavescens; Cinosternum flavescens; Kinosternon flavescens flavescens; Kinosternon flavescens spooneri; Platythyra flavescens

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow mud turtle (Kinosternon flavescens) is a species of mud turtle in the Kinosternidae family that can be found in the Central United States and Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Kinosternon flavescens

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  331 grams
Female Weight [1]  271 grams
Female Maturity [1]  9 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  5 years 6 months
Gestation [1]  3 months 12 days
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  40 years

Predators

Buteogallus anthracinus (Common Black-Hawk)[2]

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
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
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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