Kinosternoidea

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

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

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

Past classification

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

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References

  1. 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. 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


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