Distribution
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Continent: North-America
Distribution: USA (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi)
Type locality: Ouachita River, 4 miles northeast of Harrisonburg, Louisiana.
sabinensis: S USA (E Texas, W Louisiana);
Type locality: Sabine River, 8 miles southwest of Negreet, Louisiana.
Comprehensive Description
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Graptemys pseudogeographica ouachitensis Cagle, 1953
[= Graptemys ouachitensis Cagle, 1953; fide, Vogt, 1980:18, Stephens and Wiens, 2003:596]
Cagle, 1953a, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 546:10, figs. 2, 3.
Paratype: USNM 139733 (formerly UIMNH 26717) (alcoholic male, CL 107 mm), collected at the type locality by a Tulane University field party, 10–11 Jun 1950.
Type Locality: “Ouachita River, four miles northeast of Harrisonburg, Louisiana” [Catahoula, Parish, Louisiana].
Other Type Material: Holotype: UMMZ 104345. Paratypes: CAS-SU 16288; FMNH 67101–04; MCZ 53271; TU 12536, 12545, 12631, 12655, 12658, 12664–67, 12670–71, 12695, 12701, 12705, 12710, 12783, 12975(3); UIMNH 26716; UMMZ 104346–50.
Etymology: The name ouachitensis refers to the Ouachita River, Louisiana.
Remarks: The specimen was cited as UIMNH 26717 in the original description.
- bibliographic citation
- Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626
