Comprehensive Description
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Graptemys pseudogeographica sabinensis Cagle, 1953
[= Graptemys sabinensis Cagle, 1953; fide, Vogt, 1980:18, Stephens and Wiens, 2003:596]
Cagle, 1953a, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 546:2, figs. 1, 3.
Paratype: USNM 134312 (formerly UIMNH 26722), (alcoholic juvenile female, CL 104 mm), collected at the type locality by a Tulane University field party, 5–9 Jul 1950.
Type Locality: “Sabine River, eight miles southwest of Negreet, Louisiana” [Sabine Parish, Louisiana].
Other Type Material: Holotype: UMMZ 104351. Paratypes: CAS-SU 16287; FMNH 67105–15; MCZ 53270; TU 13110–11, 13116, 13119–21, 13127–28, 13131, 13139, 13141–42, 13148–49, 13152, 13160, 13166, 13172, 13175, 13177–79, 13181, 13185–86, 13190, 13194–95, 13197, 13200, 13202–04, 13206–09, 13253, 13258, 13261–62, 13510(2), 13564(3), 13740(13), 13741(7), 13743(8), 13744(7), 13745(4), 13746(5), 13747(2), 13748(17), 13760(14); UIMNH 26718–21; UMMZ 104352–69.
Etymology: The name sabinensis refers to the Sabine River in Louisiana.
Remarks: The specimen was cited as UIMNH 26722 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
