THE CENTER FOR NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGY


Reptilia    Testudines    Emydidae  

Yellow-blotched Map Turtle
Graptemys flavimaculata Cagle, 1954
grap-TEM-ees — flav-eh-mak-yoo-LAW-tuh

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.21.20.38)
Download GeoJSON polygon range file: - 0.19 MB

Province/State Distribution:
USA: Mississippi

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1954 Cagle, Fred R. Two new species of the genus Graptemys. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 1:167-186
1987 McCoy, C. J. and Vogt, Richard C. Graptemys flavimaculata Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (403):1-2
1994 McCoy, Clarence J., Jr. and Richard C. Vogt. Graptemys. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (584):1-3
1994 Lamb, Trib, Charles Lydeard, R. B. Walker, and J. Whitfield Gibbons. Molecular systematics of map turtles (Graptemys): A comparison of mitochondrial restriction site versus sequence data. Systematic Biology 43:543-559
2017 Praschag, Peter, Flora Ihlow, Morris Flecks, Melita Vamberger, and Uwe Fritz. Diversity of North American map and sawback turtles (Testudines: Emydidae: Graptemys). Zoologica Scripta 46:675-682

THE CENTER FOR NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGY — Accessed: Saturday 07 June 2025 12:46 CT