Biology:Pearl River map turtle
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Emydidae |
| Genus: | Graptemys |
| Species: | G. pearlensis
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| Graptemys pearlensis Ennen et al., 2010[3]
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| Combined range map of Pearl River map turtle (western blue section) and Pascagoula map turtle (eastern blue section) | |
The Pearl River map turtle (Graptemys pearlensis) is a species of emydid turtle native to the southern United States . According to a study done in January 2017, the species G. pearlensis was significantly less abundant in the Pearl River region as compared to G. oculifera and exhibited a smaller number of reproductively mature females. Further, this study highlighted statistical and observational evidence that this species exhibited female-biased, sexual dimorphism.[4]
Geographic range
It is endemic to the Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi.[3] The ringed map turtle (G. oculifera) is also endemic to the Pearl River.
Taxonomy
Until 2010, it was included in the Pascagoula map turtle (G. gibbonsi), which it resembles.[3] In 2010 Ennen and his colleagues described Graptemys pearlensis as a new species. They used sequence variation of the mitochondrial control region along with the ND4 gene and found out three samples of Graptemys pearlensis constituting reciprocally monophyletic sister clades.[5]
References
- ↑ van Dijk, P.P. (2011). "Graptemys pearlensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T184437A97423604. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/184437/97423604. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ↑ "Appendices | CITES". https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ennen, Joshua R.; Lovich, Jeffrey E.; Kreiser, Brian R.; Selman, W.; Qualls, Carl P. (2010). "Genetic and morphological variation between populations of the Pascagoula map turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) in the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers with description of a new species". Chelonian Conservation and Biology 9 (1): 98–113. doi:10.2744/CCB-0835.1.
- ↑ Selman, Will; Jones, Robert L. (January 2017). "Population structure, status, and conservation of two Graptemys species from the Pearl River, Mississippi". Journal of Herpetology 51 (1): 27–36. doi:10.1670/15-082. ISSN 0022-1511.
- ↑ Praschag, Peter; Ihlow, Flora; Flecks, Morris; Vamberger, Melita; Fritz, Uwe (2017). "Diversity of North American map and sawback turtles (Testudines: Emydidae: Graptemys)". Zoologica Scripta 46 (6): 675–682. doi:10.1111/zsc.12249.
External links
- Graptemys pearlensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 April 2013.
Wikidata ☰ Q144493 entry
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