Common Mud Turtle Subspecies
A:2 lines on side of head. From Mississippi and Arkansas to eastern Texas, also s. Alabama, Florida panhandle.
Mississippi mud turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis
B:Head usually plain. From Florida peninsula only.
Florida mud turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri
C:Head spotted or mottled. Eastern seaboard states from Conneticut to Georgia, also Tennessee, Alabama & Kentucky.
Eastern mud turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum