# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Sonoyta Mud Turtle
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2017-09-20 · Effective 2017-10-20 · 82 FR 43897
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-20072
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 43897
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2017-09-20
- **Effective date:** 2017-10-20
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R2-ES-2016-0103
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), list the Sonoyta mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale), a turtle from Arizona in the United States and Sonora in Mexico, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended. This rule adds the Sonoyta mud turtle to the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and extends the Act's protections to this subspecies.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/20/2017-20072/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-endangered-species-status-for-sonoyta-mud-turtle)
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