Kinosternoidea

Kinosternoidea
Common musk turtle, a species of the superfamily Kinosternoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Americhelydia
Superfamily: Kinosternoidea
Joyce, Parham, and Gauthier 2004[1]
Families

Kinosternoidea is a superfamily of aquatic turtles, which includes two families: Dermatemydidae, and Kinosternidae.

Kinosternoids are cryptodires, turtles whose necks are able to retract within their shell. Molecular studies suggest they are likely the sister group to the snapping turtles of the family Chelydridae.[2] They are also omnivorous, oviparous, phosphatic, and actively mobile.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Rhodin 2011, pp. 000.171-176
  2. ^ Crawford, Nicholas G.; Parham, James F.; Sellas, Anna B.; Faircloth, Brant C.; Glenn, Travis C.; Papenfuss, Theodore J.; Henderson, James B.; Hansen, Madison H.; Simison, W. Brian (2015). "A phylogenomic analysis of turtles". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 250–257. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.021. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25450099.
  3. ^ "Kinosternoidea". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2020-06-27.