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Yellow Mud Turtle

Kinosternon flavescens

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) panza_rayada, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.

United States	4,840
Texas	2,575
Oklahoma	1,036
New Mexico	550
Kansas	256
Mexico	73
Nebraska	71
Chihuahua	24
South Dakota	23
Tamaulipas	20

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Reptiles · Reptilia
Order	Turtles and Tortoises · Testudines
Family	American Mud and Musk Turtles · Kinosternidae
Genus	Mud Turtles · Kinosternon

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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