Distribution
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المقدمة من ReptileDB
Continent: North-America Middle-America
Distribution: Mexico ((Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas), USA (isolated populations in S New Mexico and adjacent Texas)
Type locality: 3 1/2 mi. W Jimenez, RÃo San Diego, Coahuila, México, 850 feet [elevation].
Comprehensive Description
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المقدمة من Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Pseudemys concinna gorzugi Ward, 1984
[= Pseudemys gorzugi Ward, 1984; fide, Ernst, 1990: 461.1; Seidel, 1994:123]
Ward, 1984, Spec. Publ. Mus. Texas Tech Univ. 21:29, fig. 6.
Paratypes: USNM 76 (alcoholic juvenile, CL 58 mm), Cadereita, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, collected by Lt. Darius N. Couch, 1853; USNM 80 (alcoholic juvenile, CL 42 mm), Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, collected by Capt. Jonathan Pope, date unknown, cataloged 14 Feb 1856.
Type Locality: “3 1/2 mi. W Jimenez, Río San Diego, Coahuila, México, 850 feet altitude.”
Other Type Material: Holotype: KU 39986. Paratypes: KU 15929, 39985; TTU 7347; and UU 4097–98, 4106–07, 4110.
Etymology: The name gorzugi is a patronym honoring Smithsonian Institution herpetologist Dr. George R. Zug.
Remarks: Paratypes USNM 76 and USNM 80 are also paratypes of Pseudemys texana Baur, 1893a:223. See discussion of Couch localities and itinerary in Conant (1968). Paratype USNM 80 is illustrated in figure 6 of Ward (1984:30).
- الاقتباس الببليوغرافي
- 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
Rio Grande cooter: Brief Summary
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المقدمة من wikipedia EN
The Rio Grande cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to northeastern Mexico and the adjacent southwestern United States.
