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    Species Accepted

    Staurotypus salvinii Gray, 1864

    Chiapas Giant Musk Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Staurotypus
    IUCNNear Threatened

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
      Chiapas Giant Musk Turtle English
      Crucilla Spanish
      Cruzayuche Spanish
      Giant Musk Turtle English
      Guao de Tres Lomos Spanish
      Pacific Coast Giant Musk Turtle English
      Pacific Coast Musk Turtle English
      Salvin-keresztmellűteknős Hungarian
      Salvins Kreuzbrustschildkröte German
      Tortuga almizclera crucilla Spanish

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      37 results
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      Iverson J B. (1985). Staurotypus Wagler. Mexican musk turtles. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 362: 1-2.
      Mertens, R. (1952). Die Amphibien und Reptilien von El Salvador. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) (No. 487): 120 Pp.
      Gray, J. E. (1873). Notes on the tortoises of the ‘Zoology of Mexico’ of MM.A. Duméril and Bocourt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 12: 109-114.
      Legler, J. M., & Vogt, R. C. (2013). The Turtles of Mexico: Land and Freshwater Forms. University of California Press, 416 Pp.
      Sites, J.W., Jr., J. W. Bickham, and M. W. Haiduk. (1979). Derived X chromosome in the turtle genus Staurotypus. Science 206 (4425):1410-1412.
      Gray, J. E. (1864). Description of a new species of Staurotypus (S. salvinii) from Guatemala. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 14: 451-452.
      Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson. (2015). The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Dean, R. H., & Bickham, J. W. (1983). Staurotypus salvini. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (327): 1-2.

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