Pearl River map turtle | |
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Scientific classification | |
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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Binomial name | |
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]
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.
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]
Pearl River map turtle | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Emydidae |
Genus: | Graptemys |
Species: | G. pearlensis
|
Binomial name | |
Graptemys pearlensis Ennen et al., 2010
[3]
| |
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]
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.
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]