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Pearl River Map Turtle
Graptemys pearlensis Ennen, Lovich, Kreiser, Selman, and Qualls, 2010
grap-TEM-ees — purl-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:
USA: Louisiana 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:
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
2010 Ennen, Joshua R., Jeffrey E. Lovich, Brian R. Kreiser, W. Selman, and Carl P. Qualls. Genetic and morphological variation between populations of the Pascagoula Map Turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) in the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers with description of a new species. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 9(1):98–113
2012 Ennen, Joshua R., Lovich, Jeffrey E., and Birkhead, Roger Graptemys pearlensis Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (889):1-4
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
2024 Selman, Will. Distribution and abundance of Graptemys oculifera (Ringed Sawback) and Graptemys pearlensis (Pearl Map Turtle) in the Pearl River system of Louisiana, USA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 19(1):129-143

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