Kinosternidae

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Division: Pan-Testudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira

Superfamilia: Chelydroidea
Familia: Kinosternidae
Subfamilia: Kinosterninae - Staurotypinae

Genus (stem): †

Emarginachelys – †
Lutemys – †
Tullochelys – †
Yelmochelys

Name

Kinosternidae　Agassiz, 1857

Synonymy

Cinosternoidae Agassiz 1857:249
Kinosterna Gray 1869:180
Kinosternidae Hay 1892:560

References

Agassiz, Louis. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classification. Part II. North American Testudinata. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Vol. I, pp. 1–452.
Gray, John Edward. 1869. Notes on the families and genera of tortoises (Testudinata), and on the characters afforded by the study of their skulls. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869:165–225.
Hay, Oliver P. 1892. The Batrachians and Reptiles of the State of Indiana. Annual Report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources 17:412–602.
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Bour, R.) 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479 Reference page.

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Schlammschildkröten
English: Mud Turtles & Musk Turtles
日本語: ドロガメ科
Nederlands: Modderschildpadden
polski: mułowcowate
русский: Иловые черепахи
Türkçe: Bataklık kaplumbağasıgiller