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Mississippi map turtle

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Subspecies of turtle

Mississippi map turtle
Top: Mississippi Map Turtle; Bottom: False Map Turtle
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Cryptodira
Family:Emydidae
Genus:Graptemys
Species:
Subspecies:
G. p. kohnii
Trinomial name
Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii
(Baur, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Malacoclemmys kohnii
    Baur, 1890
  • Graptemys kohnii
    — Baur, 1893
  • Malaclemys lesueurii kohnii
    Siebenrock, 1909
  • Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii
    Stejneger &Barbour, 1917
  • Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni
    Mertens, 1934
  • Graptemys kohni
    Cagle, 1953
  • Malaclemys kohni
    McDowell, 1964
  • Graptemys khonii
    Ferri, 2002 (ex errore)[1]
  • Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii
    Rhodin et al., 2010[2]

TheMississippi map turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii), also knowncommonly asKohn's map turtle,[3] is asubspecies of land and water turtle belonging to thefamilyEmydidae.G. p. kohnii is native to the central United States.

Etymology

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The common name, Mississippi map turtle, derives not from the state ofMississippi, but rather from theMississippi River.[citation needed]

Thespecific name,kohnii, is in honor of amateurnaturalist Joseph Gustave Kohn (1837–1906) ofNew Orleans,Louisiana, who collected thetype specimen.[4][3]

Geographic range

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G. p. kohnii is found along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, fromIllinois andMissouri southward.[citation needed]

Description

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The graycarapace ofG. p. kohnii is covered in yellow lines which resemble contour lines of a map.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^Fritz, Uwe;Havaš, Peter (2007)."Checklist of Chelonians of the World".Vertebrate Zoology.57 (2): 189.doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895.S2CID 87809001.
  2. ^SpeciesGraptemys pseudogeographica atThe Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^abBeolens, Bo;Watkins, Michael;Grayson, Michael (2011).The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Graptemys kohnii, p. 145).
  4. ^Baur G (1890). "Two New Species of Tortoises from the South".Science16 (405): 262–263. (Malacoclemmys kohnii, new species, p. 263).

Further reading

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  • Conant R (1975).A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. + 48 plates.ISBN 0-395-19979-4 (hardback),ISBN 0-395-19977-8 (paperback). (Graptemys kohni, pp. 56–57 + Plates 5, 8 + Map 19).
  • Powell R, Conant R,Collins JT (2016).Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 Plates, 207 Figures.ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii, pp. 208–209, Figure 93 + Plates 16, 21).
  • Smith HM; Brodie ED Jr (1982).Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp.ISBN 0-307-13666-3 (paperback). (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni, pp. 50–51.)
Emydidae family
Genera
Species of theEmydidae family
Northern red-bellied cooter(Pseudemys rubriventris)
Chrysemys
Clemmys
Deirochelys
Actinemys
Emys
Emydoidea
Glyptemys
Graptemys
Malaclemys
Pseudemys
Terrapene
Trachemys
Wilburemys
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
  
 
Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii
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