{"id":2521,"date":"2026-02-01T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:05:12","slug":"sonoyta-mud-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/testudindae\/sonoyta-mud-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonoyta Mud Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/testudindae\/kinosternidae\/kinosternon\/sonoriense\/longifemorale\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"680\">Sonoyta Mud Turtle<\/a> is only found in small parts of Sonora, Mexico, and a single small pond in extreme southern Arizona \u2013 a stone&#8217;s throw from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/border\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"475\">border<\/a>. Here is one of several seen on an afternoon visit to this pool, swimming around just under the surface, going after insects and poking through clumps of algae. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kinosternon-sonoriense-longifemorale_O4A8829-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kinosternon-sonoriense-longifemorale_O4A8829-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kinosternon-sonoriense-longifemorale_O4A8829-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kinosternon-sonoriense-longifemorale_O4A8829-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kinosternon-sonoriense-longifemorale_O4A8829-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kinosternon-sonoriense-longifemorale_O4A8829-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grageda-Garc\u00eda, M., &amp; Bogan, M. T. (2025). Conservation status of the Sonoyta mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale) and comparison of estimated abundances in different historical sites along the Sonoyta River in Sonora, Mexico. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 24(2), 155\u2013166. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2744\/CCB-1588.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sonoyta Mud Turtle is only found in small parts of Sonora, Mexico, and a single small pond in extreme southern Arizona \u2013 a stone&#8217;s throw from the border. Here is one of several seen on an afternoon visit to this pool, swimming around just under the surface, going after insects and poking through clumps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,547,680,548,321],"tags":[171,327],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kinosternidae","category-kinosternon","category-longifemorale","category-sonoriense","category-testudindae","tag-mexico","tag-endangered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}