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Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle
Macrochelys suwanniensis Thomas, Granatosky, Bourque, Krysko, Moler, Gamble, Suarez, Leone, Enge, and Roman, 2014

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: 2024.01.18.10.14.26)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Florida Georgia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Alligator-snapper (Macrochelys temminckii: Stejneger, Leonhard H. and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temmincki: 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:
1955 Smith, Hobart M. The generic name of the alligator snapper turtle. Herpetologica 11:16
1957 Auffenberg, Walter. The status of the turtle Macroclemys floridana Hay. Herpetologica 13:123-126
1958 Smith, Hobart M. The generic name of the alligator snapper turtle. Herpetologica 11(1):16
1989 Pritchard, Peter C. H. The Alligator Snapping Turtle: Biology and conservation. Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. pp.
1993 Lovich, J. E. Macroclemys. M. temminckii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (562):1-4
1999 Roman, Joseph, Steven D. Santhurr, Paul E. Moler, and Brian W. Bowen. Population structure and cryptic evolutionary units in the Alligator Snapping Turtle. Conservation Biology 13(1):135-142
1999 Roman, Joseph, Deette Walker, and Brian W. Bowen. Genetic tools for forensic identification of snapping turtle (Malaclemys temminckii and Chelydra serpentina) products in commercial trade . Herpetological Review 30(4):218-219
2006 Pritchard, Peter C. H. The Alligator Snapping Turtle: Biology and conservation. Revised edition. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. pp.
2009 Chandler, Christopher H. and Fredric J. Janzen. Phylogenetic position of the Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae) based on nucleotide sequence data. Copeia 2009(2):221-226
2010 Echelle, Anthony A., J. C. Hackler, J. B. Lack, S. R. Ballard, Joseph Roman, Stanley F. Fox, D. M. Leslie, Jr., R. A. Van Den Bussche. Conservation genetics of the Alligator Snapping Turtle: Cytonuclear evidence of range-wide bottleneck effects and unusually pronounced geographic structure. Conservation Genetics 11:1375-1387
2014 Thomas, Travis M., Michael C. Granatosky, Jason R. Bourque, Kenneth L. Krysko, Paul E. Moler, Tony Gamble, Eric Suarez, Erin Leone, Kevin M. Enge, and Joe Roman. Taxonomic assessment of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States. Zootaxa 3786(2):141-165
2015 Folt, Brian and Craig Guyer. Evaluating recent taxonomic changes for Alligator Snapping Turtles (Testudines: Chelydridae). Zootaxa 3947(3):447-450
2021 Enge, Kevin M., Bradley S. Smith, Travis M. Thomas , Brooke l. Talley , Terri Cannon, and Daniel Catizone. Coastal observations of alligator snapping turtles in the florida panhandle. Florida Field Naturalist 49(3):138-147

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