Common name: Eastern Mud Turtle
Scientific name: Kinosternon subrubrum (Lacepède, 1788)

Class:
Chelonia (Turtles)
Order:
Testudines (Turtles)
Family:
Kinosternidae (Mud or Musk Turtles)
Synonyms:
Other common names:

Habitat type(s):
Habitat description(s)
Estuarine:
Herbaceous wetland
Lacustrine:
Shallow water
Palustrine:
HERBACEOUS WETLAND, FORESTED WETLAND, Riparian
Riverine:
Pool, Low gradient, CREEK

Ecological systems and subsytems (about):
ESTUARINE - ESTUARINE INTERTIDAL:
Brackish tidal marsh (guide)
A marsh community that occurs where water salinity ranges from 0.5 to 18.0 ppt, and water is less than 2 m (6 ft) deep at high tide. The vegetation in a brackish tidal marsh is dense and dominated by tall grass-like plants.
ESTUARINE - ESTUARINE INTERTIDAL:
Coastal salt pond (guide)
A community inhabiting marine shoreline lakes or ponds formed by sandspits that close off a lagoon or bay. The water typically averages brackish or slightly brackish over long periods of time, but may range rapidly from fresh to saline.
ESTUARINE - ESTUARINE CULTURAL:
Estuarine impoundment marsh*
A marsh community that occurs in a wetland created or modified by a barrier or dam that obstructs the outflow or inflow of water, and which has a biological composition significantly different from the composition of a natural estuarine marsh.
ESTUARINE - ESTUARINE SUBTIDAL:
Freshwater tidal creek* (guide)
The aquatic community of a shallow, tidally flooded freshwater creek with submerged areas averaging less than 2 m (6 ft) deep at low tide.
ESTUARINE - ESTUARINE INTERTIDAL:
High salt marsh (guide)
A coastal marsh community that occurs in sheltered areas of the seacoast, in a zone extending from mean high tide up to the limit of spring tides. It is periodically flooded by spring tides and flood tides. High salt marshes typically consist of a mosaic of patches that are mostly dominated by a single graminoid species.
ESTUARINE - ESTUARINE INTERTIDAL:
Low salt marsh (guide)
A coastal marsh community that occurs in sheltered areas of the seacoast, in a zone extending from mean high tide down to mean sea level or to about 2 m (6 ft) below mean high tide. It is regularly flooded by semidiurnal tides. The mean tidal range of low salt marshes on Long Island is about 80 cm, and they often form in basins with a depth of 1.6 m or greater.
TERRESTRIAL - BARRENS AND WOODLANDS:
Pitch pine-scrub oak barrens* (guide)
A shrub-savanna community that occurs on well-drained, sandy soils that have developed on sand dunes, glacial till, and outwash plains.
ESTUARINE - ESTUARINE SUBTIDAL:
Saltwater tidal creek* (guide)
The aquatic community of a shallow, tidally flooded saltwater or brackish creek with submerged areas averaging less than 2 m (6 ft) deep at low tide.

* probable association but not confirmed.


Conservation:
Global conservation status rank:
G5
Secure globally - Common in the world; widespread and abundant (but may be rare in some parts of its range).
State conservation status rank:
S1
Critically Imperiled in New York - Especially vulnerable to disappearing from New York due to extreme rarity or other factors; typically 5 or fewer populations or locations in New York, very few individuals, very restricted range, very few remaining acres (or miles of stream), and/or very steep declines.
Federal protection:
Not Listed
State protection:
Endangered
Listed as Endangered by New York State: in imminent danger of extirpation in New York. For animals, taking, importation, transportation, or possession is prohibited, except under license or permit. For plants, removal or damage without the consent of the landowner is prohibited.
SGCN:
NYNHP track status:
Y: Track all extant and selected historical EOs

More information:
Conservation guide:
https://guides.nynhp.org/eastern-mud-turtle/
NatureServe explorer link:
https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.106169/Kinosternon_subrubrum/