Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98

  NAME -                 Narrow-bridged musk turtle

  ORDER -                TESTUDINES
  FAMILY -               Kinosternidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Claudius angustatus

  REFERENCES - 3 and  1

  District                                                     Reference

  Orange Walk, Belize                                                  2
  Belize, Belize                                                       2
  Cayo, Belize                                                         2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Rio Bravo Conservation Area                                                 2
  Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve                                             2
  Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed)                                            2
  Government land                                                             2
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30'           2
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45'           2
  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           2
  17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45'           2
  17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           2
  

  References

  1  King, F. W. , R. L. Blake eds. 1989. Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle
     Species of the World.  A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. ASC. Wash.
     DC. p. 68.
  
  2  Meerman, J., 1994. Summary of Herpetofauna Distributions in Belize.
     Report to National Protected Areas Management Project.
  
  3  Lee, Julian C. 1996.  The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán
     Peninsula.  Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca, New York.