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Staurotypinae
Taxonomy
Staurotypidae was named by Gray (1869). It is extant. Its type is Staurotypus.
It was reranked as the subfamily Staurotypinae by Kuhn (1966), Hutchison (1991) and van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Chelydroidea by Baur (1893); to Chelydridae by Kuhn (1966); and to Kinosternidae by Hutchison (1991) and van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was reranked as the subfamily Staurotypinae by Kuhn (1966), Hutchison (1991) and van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Chelydroidea by Baur (1893); to Chelydridae by Kuhn (1966); and to Kinosternidae by Hutchison (1991) and van Dijk et al. (2014).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1869 | Staurotypidae Gray |
| 1893 | Staurotypidae Baur p. 674 |
| 1966 | Staurotypinae Kuhn p. 25 |
| 1991 | Staurotypinae Hutchison p. 147 |
| 2014 | Staurotypinae van Dijk et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. Staurotypinae Gray 1869
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G. Claudius Cope 1865 [narrow-bridged musk turtle]
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Claudius angustatus Cope 1865 [narrow-bridged musk turtle]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: superf = superfamily, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
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