DISTRIBUTION. Kinosternon leucostomum occurs in various permanent, semipermanent, and temporary aquatic habitats. primarily at lower elevations throughout its range. The northernmost part of the species’ distribution includes Gulf of México drainages from Punta del Morro in central Veracruz, México to the Río Usamacinta. This species occurs in nearly all Caribbean drainages from the eastern Peninsula de Yucatán to the ríos Atrato and Magdalena in Colombia, and in Pacific drainages from the Peninsula de Nicoya in Panamá, southward to west central Ecuador. Records for northwestern Perú (Pritchard 1984; Pritchard and Trebbau 1984) are unsubstantiated (Carr and Almendáriz 1990).
