Check List 11(1): e19147, doi: 10.15560/11.1.1549
The southernmost known locality for Kinosternon leucostomum (Reptilia, Testudines, Kinosternidae), El Oro province, southern Ecuador
Dan Cogălniceanu‡,
Jerónimo Torres-Porras§,
José Manuel Seoane|,
Cristobal Antonio Freire Lascano§‡ University Ovidius Constanta, Romania§ Universidad Técnica de Machala, Ecuador| University of Córdoba, Spain
Corresponding author:
Dan Cogălniceanu
(
dcogalniceanu@univ-ovidius.ro
)
© 2017 Dan Cogălniceanu, Jerónimo Torres-Porras, José Seoane, Cristobal Lascano. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Cogălniceanu D, Seoane J, Torres-Porras J, Lascano C (2015) The southernmost known locality for Kinosternon leucostomum (Reptilia, Testudines, Kinosternidae), El Oro province, southern Ecuador. Check List 11(1): 1549. 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.
Keywords
Buenaventura Reserve; El Oro, Ecuador; Kinosternon leucostomum; range extension