Kinosternoidea
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| Common musk turtle a species of the Kinosternoidea superfamily | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Clade: | Polycryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Kinosternoidea Joyce, Parham, and Gauthier 2004[1] |
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Kinosternoidea is a superfamily of aquatic turtles, which included two families: Dermatemydidae, and Kinosternidae.
These are nowadays usually considered independent families of the Trionychia, among which they represent very plesiomorphic members which share a few peculiarly advanced traits. These apomorphies coupled with the overall "primitiveness" was what misled scientists as to their actual relationships.
Classification
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- Dermatemydidae family[1]
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- Dermatemys genus[1]
- Baptemys genus[2]
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- Kinosternidae family[1]
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- Hoplochelys genus[2]
- Staurotypinae subfamily[1]
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- Claudius genus[1]
- Staurotypus genus[1]
- Kinosterninae subfamily[1]
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- Kinosternon genus[1]
- Sternotherus genus[1]
Past classification
The entirely unrelated big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) was previously included in classification.[2]
References
- Bibliography
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Extant turtle taxonomy
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