TY - JOUR AU - Viana, Diego Carvalho AU - dos Santos, Amilton Cesar AU - Antunes, Roberto Luiz dos Santos PY - 2015/12/08 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - New record of Kinosternon scorpioides in Brazil increases its geo distribution - Case report JF - Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Medicine JA - Braz. J. Vet. Med. VL - 37 IS - 4 SE - Case report DO - UR - https://bjvm.org.br/BJVM/article/view/426 SP - 386-388 AB - <p>ABSTRACT. Viana D.C., Santos A.C. &amp; Antunes R.L.S. New record of Kinosternon scorpioides in Brazil increases its geo distribution - Case report. [Novo registro de Kinosternon scorpioides no Brasil aumenta sua geodistribuição - Relato de caso.] Revista Brasileira de Medicina Veterinária, 37(4):386-388, 2015. Department of Anatomy of Domestic and Wild Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of São Paulo, Av. Dr. Orlando Marques de Paiva 87, São Paulo SP, 05508-270. Brazil. E-mail: diego_carvalho_@hotmail.com/ diegoviana@usp.br Kinosternon scorpioides scorpioides is the only sub-species of K. scorpioides with a distribution in South America. The register shows another new site for K. s. scorpioides, in the municipality of Imperatriz MA Brazil and the first report in the meso-region of Western Maranhão, River Tocantins. The municipality lies in the south-western region of the state and is known as the gate to the Amazon region, corroborating the importance of K. s. scorpioides inventories.</p> ER -