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Alabama Red-bellied Cooter
Pseudemys alabamensis Baur, 1893

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Mississippi

First instance(s) of published English names:
Alabama Terrapin (Pseudemys alabamiensis: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46); Mobilian (Pseudemys mobiliensis: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46); Moblie Terrapin (Pseudemys mobilensis: Brimley, Clement S. 1915. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1893 Baur, G. Notes on the classification and taxonomy of the Testudinidae. IV. The species of the genus Pseudemys. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 31:221-225
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
1985 McCoy, C. J. and Richard C. Vogt. Pseudemys alabamensis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (371):1-2
1996 Seidel, Michael E. and Carl H. Ernst. Pseudemys. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (625):1-7
1997 Siedel, Michael E. and Uwe fritz. Courtship behavior provides additional evidence for a monophyletic Pseudemys, and comments on Mesoamerican Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae). Herpetological Review 28(2):70-72

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