巨头麝香龟
巨头麝香龟![]() | |
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巨头麝香龟 | |
科学分类 ![]() | |
界: | 动物界 Animalia |
门: | 脊索动物门 Chordata |
纲: | 爬行纲 Reptilia |
目: | 龟鳖目 Testudines |
亚目: | 曲颈龟亚目 Cryptodira |
科: | 动胸龟科 Kinosternidae |
属: | 小麝香龟属 Sternotherus |
种: | 巨头麝香龟 S. minor
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二名法 | |
Sternotherus minor (Agassiz, 1857)
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异名[1] | |
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巨头麝香龟(英语:Loggerhead musk turtle,学名:Sternotherus minor)是小麝香龟属下的一种龟,原产于美国。其种加词“minor”意为“较小的”。
描述
![](http://images.weserv.nl/?url=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Sternothernus_minor.jpg/220px-Sternothernus_minor.jpg)
巨头麝香龟得名自其不寻常的巨大头部,其成年个体背壳长约8—13厘米(3.1—5.1英寸),其鳃只存在于下颌上。[2]
亚种
包括其指名亚种在内,巨头麝香龟可辨识的亚种共有2种:
- Sternotherus minor minor (Agassiz, 1857)
- Sternotherus minor peltifer (H.M. Smith & Glass, 1947)[3]
参考文献
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Peter Havaš. Checklist of Chelonians of the World (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 2007, 57 (2): 262–263 [29 May 2012]. ISSN 18640-5755. (原始内容 (PDF)存档于2010-12-17).
- ^ Conant, R. 1975. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 429 pp. ISBN 0-395-19977-8. (Sternotherus minor, p. 42 + Plates 4,5 + Map 8.)
- ^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
扩展阅读
- Agassiz, L. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. I. Little, Brown, and Co. Boston. li + 452 pp.
(Goniochelys minor, p. 424.) - Smith, H.M. & B.P. Glass. 1947. A new musk turtle from the southeastern United States. Journ. Washington Acad Sci. 37 (1): 22-24.
- McCoy, C.J., A.V. Bianculli and R.C. Vogt. 1978. Sternotherus minor in the Pascagoula River system, Mississippi. Herpetological Review. 9 (3): 109.
- Ernst, C. H.; Lovich, J.E. Turtles of the United States and Canada 2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. 2009: 519–525. ISBN 978-0-8018-9121-2.
外部链接
维基共享资源上的相关多媒体资源:Sternotherus minor
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