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Texas Map Turtle
Graptemys versa Stejneger, 1925

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: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Texas Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica versa: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Texas Sawback Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica versa: 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:
1925 Stejneger, Leonard H. New species and subspecies of American turtles. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 15(20):462-463
1948 Smith, Hobart M. The map turtles of Texas. Proceedigns and Tranactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences 30:60
1981 Vogt, Richard C. Graptemys versa. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (280):1-2
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
2014 Lindeman, Peter V. A significant range extension for the Texas Map Turtle (Graptemys versa) and the inertia of an incomplete literature. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 9(2):334-341
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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