The southernmost known locality for Kinosternon leucostomum (Reptilia, Testudines, Kinosternidae), El Oro province, southern Ecuador

By

Cogălniceanu, Dan
Torres-Porras, Jeronimo
Seoane, José Manuel
Lascano, Cristobal Antonio Freire

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-1-21

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

1549--3

Subjects

Buenaventura Reserve , Ecuador , El Oro , Kinosternon leucostomum , range extension

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.1.1549

 

Abstract

An adult female Kinosternon leucostomum was found in Buenaventura Forest Reserve, El Oro province, Ecuador, on 1 August 2014 at an altitude of 523 m above sea level. This is the first report for this species in the province and is about 130 km south of the previously southernmost known location.