Kinosternon hirtipes chapalaense Iverson, 1981
Chapala mud turtle (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1978
Rediscovered in: 2010
IUCN RedList status: "apparently doing fine and is not consumed or collected"
Distribution & Habitat
Lago de Chapala and Laguna de Zapotlan basins of Jalisco and Michoacan, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: UMMZ 97128
Paratypes: UMMZ 97122, UMMZ 97123, UMMZ 97124, UMMZ 97125, UMMZ 91726, UMMZ 91727, UMMZ 97129, UMMZ 97130
Other specimens:
UMMZ 97128
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Iverson, John B. (1981). Biosystematics of the Kinosternon hirtipes species group (Testudines, Kinosternidae). Tulane Studies in Zoology, 23(1): 1-74.
Other references:
Iverson, John B. (2022). A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines). Megataxa 7(1): 1-85. https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1
Kluge, A. (1984). Type-specimens of reptiles in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 167: 1-85.
Macip-Ríos, Rodrigo et al. (2021). Population Viability Analysis of Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi in Central México, with Notes on the Conservation Status of the Other Three Subspecies of the Lineage. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. https://doi.org/10.2744/CCB-1436.1 [Abstract]
Reyes-Velasco, Jacobo, Iverson, John B. and Flores-Villela, Oscar. (2013). The Conservation Status of Several Endemic Mexican Kinosternid Turtles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 12(1): 203-208. [Abstract]
van Dijk, P.P., Hammerson, G., Vazquez Diaz, J., Quintero Diaz, G.E., Santos, G. & Flores-Villela, O. (2007). Kinosternon hirtipes. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 18 August 2013.
Weaver, Sam et al. (2022). Assessing genomic and ecological differentiation among subspecies of the rough-footed mud turtle, Kinosternon hirtipes. Journal of Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esac036