巨頭麝香龜

巨頭麝香龜（，學名：Sternotherus minor）是小麝香龜屬下的一種龜，原産於美國。其种加词“minor”意为“较小的”。

 描述 

巨頭麝香龜得名自其不尋常的巨大頭部，其成年個體背殼長約，其鰓只存在於下頜上。Conant, R. 1975. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 429 pp. ISBN 0-395-19977-8. (Sternotherus minor, p. 42 + Plates 4,5 + Map 8.)

 亞種 

包括其指名亞種在內，巨頭麝香龜可辨識的亞種共有2種：

 Sternotherus minor minor (Agassiz, 1857)
 Sternotherus minor peltifer (H.M. Smith & Glass, 1947)The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

 參考文獻 

 擴展閱讀 
 Agassiz, L. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. I. Little, Brown, and Co. Boston. li + 452 pp. (Goniochelys minor, p. 424.)
 Smith, H.M. & B.P. Glass. 1947. A new musk turtle from the southeastern United States. Journ. Washington Acad Sci. 37 (1): 22-24.
 McCoy, C.J., A.V. Bianculli and R.C. Vogt. 1978. Sternotherus minor in the Pascagoula River system, Mississippi. Herpetological Review. 9 (3): 109.


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