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Ouachita Map Turtle
Graptemys ouachitensis Cagle, 1953

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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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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