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Florida Red-bellied Cooter
Pseudemys nelsoni Carr, 1938

Current SSAR 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:
Florida Red-bellied Turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Florida Red-bellied Terrapin (Pseudemys nelsoni: 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

Pertinent LIterature:
1938 Carr, Archie F., Jr. Pseudemys nelsoni, a new turtle from Florida. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History (8):305-310

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