Kinosternoidea

Superfamily of turtles

Kinosternoidea
Common musk turtle, a species of the superfamily Kinosternoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Americhelydia
Superfamily: Kinosternoidea
Joyce, Parham, and Gauthier 2004[1]
Families
  • Dermatemydidae[1]
  • Kinosternidae[1]

Kinosternoidea is a superfamily of aquatic turtles, which includes two families: Dermatemydidae, and Kinosternidae.

Kinosternoids are cryptodires, turtles whose necks are able to retract within their shell. Molecular studies suggest they are likely the sister group to the snapping turtles of the family Chelydridae.[2] They are also omnivorous, oviparous, phosphatic, and actively mobile.[3]

Classification

  • Family Dermatemydidae[1]
  • Genus Dermatemys[1]
  • Genus Baptemys[4]
  • Family Kinosternidae[1]

Past classification

The entirely unrelated big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) was previously included in classification.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Rhodin 2011, pp. 000.171-176
  2. ^ Crawford, Nicholas G.; Parham, James F.; Sellas, Anna B.; Faircloth, Brant C.; Glenn, Travis C.; Papenfuss, Theodore J.; Henderson, James B.; Hansen, Madison H.; Simison, W. Brian (2015). "A phylogenomic analysis of turtles". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 250–257. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.021. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25450099.
  3. ^ "Kinosternoidea". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  4. ^ a b c Walter G. Joyce (2007) "Phylogenetic Relationships of Mesozoic Turtles Archived 2013-06-06 at the Wayback Machine" Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
Bibliography
  • Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31.
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Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
  • Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017 Update: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. † = extinct.
Taxon identifiers
Kinosternoidea


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