巨頭麝香龜

巨頭麝香龜
	巨頭麝香龜
科学分类
界：	动物界 Animalia
门：	脊索动物门 Chordata
纲：	爬行綱 Reptilia
目：	龜鱉目 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。其种加词“minor”意为“较小的”。

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厘米（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.