Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98

  NAME -                 Scorpion mud turtle

  ORDER -                TESTUDINES
  FAMILY -               Kinosternidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Kinosternon scorpioides

  SYNONYMS - Testudo scorpioides, Linnaeus, 1766

  REFERENCES - 3 and  1

  District                                                     Reference

  Corozal, Belize                                                      2
  Orange Walk, Belize                                                  2
  Belize, Belize                                                       2
  Cayo, Belize                                                         2
  Toledo, Belize                                                       2
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Government land                                                             2
  Shipstern Nature Reserve                                                    2
  Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve                                             2
  Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed)                                            2
  Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Privat                                       2
  Chiquibul Forest Reserve                                                    2
  Bladen Nature Reserve                                                       2
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30'           2
  18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30'           2
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45'           2
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00'           2
  18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15'           2
  16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00'           2
  16 15' to 16 30'; 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
  
  General Distribution Comments

  3*  This wide-ranging mud turtle occurs at low elevations on the Gulf and
      Caribbean slopes from southern Tamaulipas south through Central America
      to northern Argentina and eastern and central Brazil. It occurs through
      out most of the Yucatán Peninsula but is apparently not recorded from
      southern El Pet‚n and southern Belize.

  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. 65.
  
  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.