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Barbour's Map Turtle
Graptemys barbouri Carr and Marchand, 1942

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.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Florida Georgia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Barbour's Map Turtle (Graptemys barbouri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Chipola Map Turtle (Graptemys barbouri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Barbour's Sawback Turtle (Graptemys barbouri: 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:
1942 Carr, Archie F., Jr. and Lewis J. Marchand. A new turtle from the Chipola River, Florida. Proceedings of the New England Zoology Club 20:98
1988 Sanderson, Roger A. and Lovich, Jeffrey E. Graptemys barbouri Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (421):1-2
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
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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