巨頭麝香龜

巨頭麝香龜
	巨頭麝香龜
科學分類
界：	動物界 Animalia
門：	脊索動物門 Chordata
綱：	爬蟲綱 Reptilia
目：	龜鱉目 Testudines
亞目：	曲頸龜亞目 Cryptodira
科：	動胸龜科 Kinosternidae
屬：	小麝香龜屬 Sternotherus
種：	巨頭麝香龜 S. minor
二名法
	Sternotherus minor; (Agassiz, 1857)
異名
	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;

巨頭麝香龜（英語：Loggerhead musk turtle，學名：Sternotherus minor）是小麝香龜屬下的一種龜，原産於美國。其種加詞「minor」意為「較小的」。

描述

頭部

巨頭麝香龜得名自其不尋常的巨大頭部，其成年個體背殼長約8—13公分（3.1—5.1英寸），其鰓只存在於下頜上。^[2]

包括其指名亞種在內，巨頭麝香龜可辨識的亞種共有2種：

^ Fritz, Uwe; Peter Havaš. Checklist of Chelonians of the World (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 2007, 57 (2): 262–263 [29 May 2012]. ISSN 18640-5755. （原始內容 (PDF)存檔於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.