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Alabama map turtle
Alabama map turtle basking on a rock
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Subclass: Anapsida
Order: Testudines
Family: Emydidae
Subfamily: Deirochelyinae
Genus: Graptemys
Species: Graptemys pulchra
(G. Baur, 1893)
Synonyms
  • Graptemys pulchra — Baur, 1893
  • Malacoclemmys pulchra — Ditmars, 1907
  • Malaclemys lesueurii pulchra — Siebenrock, 1909
  • Graptemys pulcra — Chaney & Smith, 1950 (ex errore)
  • Malaclemys pulchra — McDowell, 1964
  • Graptemys puchra — Bertl & Killebrew, 1983 (ex errore)
  • Graptemys pulchra pulchra — Artner, 2003

The Alabama map turtle is a turtle commonly found in the Mobile Bay drainage of Alabama, Georgia and rarely Mississippi. The species is a larger map turtle with females attaining a length of 11" inches. The keel on this map turtle is not black and there is a varied, yellow head marking. They feed mainly on mollusks, insects, carrion, and vegetation.

References

  1. ^ Rhodin 2010, p. 000.101 harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFRhodin2010 (help)
  2. Template:IUCN2011.1
  3. Fritz Uwe (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 189–190. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Bibliography
Emydidae family
Genera
Species of the Emydidae family
Northern red-bellied cooter(Pseudemys rubriventris)
Chrysemys
Clemmys
Deirochelys
Actinemys
Emys
Emydoidea
Glyptemys
Graptemys
Malaclemys
Pseudemys
Terrapene
Trachemys
Wilburemys
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. Key: †=extinct.
Testudines
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
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