Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Three-keeled musk turtle ORDER - TESTUDINES FAMILY - Kinosternidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Staurotypus triporcatus SYNONYMS - Terrapene triporcata, Wiegmann, 1828 REFERENCES - 3 and 1 District Reference Orange Walk, Belize 2 Corozal, Belize 2 Belize, Belize 2 Cayo, Belize 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Government land 2 Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve 2 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 2 Gallon Jug 2 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 2 Bladen Nature Reserve 2 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 2 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 2 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 2 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 2 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 2 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 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.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre
01/19/98