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Reptilia
Testudines
Emydidae
Ouachita Map Turtle
Graptemys ouachitensis
Cagle, 1953
grap-TEM-ees — waa-shee-tee-EN-sis
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: 2023.04.08.21.20.37)
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Province/State Distribution:
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Indiana
Iowa
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Ohio
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Texas
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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:
1953
Cagle, Fred R.
Two new subspecies of
Graptemys pseudogeographica
.
Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (546):17
1993
Vogt, Richard C.
Systematics of the False Map Turtles (
Graptemys pseudogeographica
complex: Reptilia, Testudines, Emydidae)
Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 62(1):1-46
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
1995
Vogt, Richard C.
Graptemys ouachitensis
.
Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (603):1-4
2008
Smith, Ashley D.
Intraspecific Phylogeography of
Graptemys ouachitensis
.
Thesis. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 31pp.
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
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