238 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



yellow stripes, one passing above and the other beneath the eye: 

 eastern and central States, from Canada to the Gulf; westward into 

 Missouri and Texas; common; odor of musk strong. 



K. carinatum (Gray). Similar to A', odoratum but with a prominent 

 middorsal keel and with imbricated plates; head spotted with black, 

 without stripes: Georgia to Louisiana. 



K. hauri Garman. Carapace 900 mm. long and 65 mm. long; color 

 brown or olive, with 3 yellow bands extending the length of the carapace : 

 Florida and Georgia. 



Fig. 130. — -Kinosternon siibrnbrurn {from Surface). 



K. steindachneri Siebenrock. Similar to K. subrubrum, but differs 

 in having a very short bridge: central Florida. 



K. subrubrum (Lacepede) {K. pensilvanicum Gmelin). Common 

 mud- turtle (Fig. 130). Carapace 85 mm. long and 60 mm. wide; 

 plastron 78 mm. long and 37 mm. wide; color dark brown, with black 

 sutures; plastron yellow or brown, with distinct Hnes of growth; head 

 dark, with yellowish spots: eastern and central States, exclusive of 

 peninsular Florida; westward to Texas, Missouri and eastern Illinois; 

 common. 



Subspecies of K. subrubrum 



K. s. hippocrepis (Gray). Two orange bands on the side of the 

 head: southern Alabama to Texas and northward in the Mississippi 

 Valley to Missouri. 



K. flavescens (Agassiz). Carapace no mm. long and 80 mm. wide; 

 color yellowish brown and yellowish green; plastron yellow; sides of 

 head and neck bright yellow: Texas to Arizona; northward to Kansas 

 and Colorado. 



K. sonoriense LeConte. Carapace no mm. long, 67 mm. wide; 

 color brown, with faint darker radiating lines on each plate; vertebral 

 plates imbricating: western Texas into southeastern California. 



