Sternotherus

Taxobox
name = "Sternotherus"

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image_caption = Common Musk Turtle
"Sternotherus odoratus"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
superfamilia = Kinosternoidea
familia = Kinosternidae
genus = "Sternotherus"
genus_authority = Gray, 1825

"Sternotherus" is a genus of aquatic turtle known commonly as the musk turtle. They are found throughout the United States and Mexico. They are very similar to the American mud turtles, but tend to have a more domed carapace, with a distinctive keel down the center of it. All musk turtles are carnivorous, consuming various aquatic invertebrates, fish, and carrion.

Species

*Razorback Musk Turtle, "Sternotherus carinatus" (Gray, 1855)
*Flattened Musk Turtle, "Sternotherus depressus" (Tinkle & Webb, 1955)
*Loggerhead Musk Turtle, "Sternotherus minor" (Agassiz, 1857)
*Common Musk Turtle or Stinkpot, "Sternotherus odoratus" (Latreille, 1802)

References

*EMBL genus|genus=Sternotherus