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Diversity and biogeography of South American mud turtles elucidated by multilocus DNA sequencing (Testudines: Kinosternidae).
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Aug 2024
Hurtado-Gómez Juan Pablo, Vargas-Ramírez Mario, Iverson John B, Joyce Walter G, McCranie James R, Paetzold Claudia, Fritz Uwe
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Kinosternon is the most speciose genus of extant turtles, with 22 currently recognized species, distributed across large parts of the Americas. Most species have small distributions, but K. leucostomum and K. scorpioides range from Mexico to South America. Previous studies have found discordance between mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies in some kinosternid groups, with the current taxonomy following the...
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