Kinosternon subrubrum (Mississippi Mud Turtle)
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EASTERN
MUD TURTLE Kinosternon subrubrum (Lacepede, 1788)
STATUS: Common
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Collin
Co.: Tanglewood Ct. in
Wylie, Brockdale Park near Lake Lavon, and .5 mi W of East Fork Park near
Lake Lavon; Dallas Co.: Seagoville area, gravel pits W of Carrollton, Glen Lakes
Country Club Lake, White Rock Lake, and 3 mi E of Merritt Rd. on Pleasant
Valley Rd; Denton Co.:
E of Denton on Audra Lane; Kaufman
Co.: 2.0 mi N of Tx 243
on FM 987 and 3 mi W of Kaufman; Tarrant
Co.: Federal fish
hatcheries below Lake Worth dam, Ft. Worth Nature Center, and gravel pits
off of Trinity Blvd. in Ft. Worth
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Collin,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Parker, and Tarrant
HABITAT: Trinity River
Bottoms, Blackland Prairie, and Post Oak Belt
SUBSPECIES: Mississippi
Mud Turtle (K. s. hippocrepis Gray,1855)
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