Common Name: Yellow Mud Turtle

Scientific Name: Kinosternon flavescens

Organism Type: Reptile

Location: Central United States and northern Mexico

2012

No date listed :(

No date listed agin :(

Their habitat is like...

Role In Ecosystem

• Their feces helps with soil ferilization


• Helps regulate small fish/amphibian populations


• Algae grows on their shells

Current Population in Iowa

Cause of decline in States

• Habitat destruction (in Illinois source 2020)


• in Missouri, "well-documented decline" (that was in 1982...)


• Not endangered in northern Nebraska through Texas & into Mexico

Given your new knowledge of the endangered status of this species, what conservation steps would YOU recommend to improve the population size of this organism in Iowa?

• Find the current population size in Iowa

Sources

• Illinois DNR: Wild About Yellow Mud Turtle (No date)
• Missouri Department of Conservation: Yellow Mud Turtle (No date)
• Iowa Herps: Yellow Mud Turtle (Assumed 2019)
• ScholarWorks: Yellow Mud Turtle Study (1990)
• FHSU Kansas Herpetology Bibliography (1982)
• ScienceDirect: Study on Yellow Mud Turtle (1983)
• Southwestern Naturalist: Declining Populations of Yellow Mud Turtles (2012)
• Illinois Natural History Survey: Yellow Mud Turtle (Source of 2012 Illinois Data)
• ResearchGate: Declining Populations of Yellow Mud Turtles (2012)
• Missouri Department of Conservation: Best Management Practices for Yellow Mud Turtle (2015)
• JSTOR: Yellow Mud Turtle Research (1984)