The Central American mud turtle (''Kinosternon angustipons''), also known as the narrow-bridged mud turtle, is a species of mud turtle in the

Kinosternidae The Kinosternidae are a family of mostly small turtles that includes the mud turtles and musk turtles. The family contains 25 species within four genera, but taxonomic reclassification is an ongoing process, so many sources vary on the exact num ...

family endemic to

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

. It can be found in the following countries: Costa Rica,

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...

and

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

. In terms of reproduction, the female Central American mud Turtle can lay up to 4 eggs at time of reproduction, and multiple times a year.

References

* Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996.
Kinosternon angustipons

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Downloaded on 5 July 2007. * Legler, 1965 : A new species of turtle, genus Kinosternon, from Central America. University of Kansas Publications of the Museum of Natural History, volume 15, number 13, pages 617–625. *Legler, J. (1966). Notes on the Natural History of a Rare Central American Turtle, Kinosternon angustipons Legler. ''Herpetologica,22''(2), 118–122. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3890897 Kinosternon Reptiles of Central America Turtles of North America Reptiles described in 1965 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Turtle-stub