KINOSTERNIDAE

Krysko, Kenneth L., Burgess, Joseph P., Rochford, Michael R., Gillette, Christopher R., Cueva, Daniel, Enge, Kevin M., Somma, Louis A., Stabile, Jennifer L., Smith, Dustin C., Wasilewski, Joseph A., Kieckhefer Iii, Guy N., Granatosky, Michael C. & Nielsen, Stuart V., 2011, 3028, Zootaxa 3028, pp. 1-64 : 30

KINOSTERNIDAE

The Razorback Musk Turtle, Sternotherus carinatus (Gray 1855) , is indigenous to a section of the United States from southern Oklahoma, central Arkansas, and Mississippi, south to the Gulf of Mexico through the Gulf Coastal Plain, with a disjunct population in Alabama (Ernst & Lovich 2009). On 17 December 2008, CRG photographed an S. carinatus (photographic voucher UF 154191) in a pond at 11200 SW 8 th Street, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus, 0.03 km northwest of the Owa Ehan Building, Miami, Miami-Dade County (25.75843611 o N, - 80.37346944 o W). At a nearby pond 0.08 km southeast of the Ryder Business Building (25.757 o N, - 80.3754 o W), CRG collected two adult S. carinatus (photographic vouchers UF 155180; and UF 157278 [MorphoBank M88572 ; Fig. 28]) on 30 March 2009 and 4 February 2010, respectively. At this same pond on 24 February 2010, CRG and DC observed, but did not voucher, another adult S. carinatus . Although S. carinatus has now been found multiple times, there is no current evidence of reproduction (stage 3). This species likely was released (stage 2). These represent the first known vouchers for this species in Florida.