巨头麝香龟

巨头麝香龟
	巨头麝香龟
科学分类
界：	动物界 Animalia
门：	脊索动物门 Chordata
纲：	爬行纲 Reptilia
目：	龟鳖目 Testudines
亚目：	曲颈龟亚目 Cryptodira
科：	动胸龟科 Kinosternidae
属：	小麝香龟属 Sternotherus
种：	巨头麝香龟 S. minor
二名法
	Sternotherus minor; (Agassiz, 1857)
异名
	Sternotherus minor minor Goniochelys minor Agassiz, 1857; Aromochelys minor – Strauch, 1862; Sternotherus minor – Stejneger, 1923; Sternotherus carinatus minor ; – Carr, 1952; Sternotherus minor minor ; – Tinkle & Webb, 1955; Sternothaerus minor minor ; – Tinkle, 1958; Sternotheraerus minor minor ; – Wharton & Howard, 1971; Kinosternon minor ; – Iverson, Ernst, Gotte & Lovich, 1989; Kinosternon minor minor ; – Ernst & Barbour, 1989; Sternotherus minor peltifer Sternotherus peltifer ; H.M. Smith & Glass, 1947; Sternotherus carinatus peltifer ; – Carr, 1952; Sternotherus minor peltifer ; – Tinkle & Webb, 1955; Sternothaerus minor peltifer ; – Tinkle, 1958; Kinosternon minor peltifer ; – Ernst & Barbour, 1989;

巨头麝香龟（英语：Loggerhead musk turtle，学名：Sternotherus minor）是小麝香龟属下的一种龟，原产于美国。其种加词“minor”意为“较小的”。

描述

巨头麝香龟得名自其不寻常的巨大头部，其成年个体背壳长约8—13厘米（3.1—5.1英寸），其鳃只存在于下颌上。^[2]

包括其指名亚种在内，巨头麝香龟可辨识的亚种共有2种：

^ Fritz, Uwe; Peter Havaš. Checklist of Chelonians of the World (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 2007, 57 (2): 262–263 [29 May 2012]. ISSN 18640-5755. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于2010-12-17）.
^ 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.)
^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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.
Ernst, C. H.; Lovich, J.E. Turtles of the United States and Canada 2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. 2009: 519–525. ISBN 978-0-8018-9121-2.