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Southern Painted Turtle
Chrysemys dorsalis Agassiz, 1857

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Arkansas Illinois Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Tennessee Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Mud Turtle (Chrysemys dorsalis: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Southern Painted Turtle (Chrysemys dorsalis: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46); Trelease's Turtle (Chrysemys treleasei: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Red-bellied Turtle (Chrysemys treleasei: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Southern Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta dorsalis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1857 Agassiz, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Volume 1. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Massachusets. 452pp.
1957 Bragg, Arthur N. and William N. Bragg. The southern painted turtle in Oklahoma. Copeia 1957(4):307-308
1971 Ernst, Carl H. Chrysemys picta. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (106):1-4
1980 Vogt, Richard C. and Clarence J. McCoy, Jr. Status of the emydine turtle genera Chrysemys and Pseudemys. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 49(5):93-102
1988 Ernst, Carl H. Chrysemys . Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (438):1-8
1997 Lindeman, Peter V. Does life-history variation in the turtle Chrysemys picta have a subspecific component? Journal of Herpetology 31(1):155-161
2003 Starkey, D. E., H. B. Shaffer, R. L. Burke, M. R. J. Forstner, J. B. Iverson, F. J. Janzen, A. G. J. Rhodin, and G. R. Ultsch. Molecular systematics, phylogeography, and the effects of Pleistocene glaciation in the Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) complex. Evolution 57:119-128

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