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July 16, 2024 at 9:34 AM. A potential new setback to the contentious One Lake development project comes down to the Pearl River Map Turtle, a species named for its distinct map-like shell pattern ...
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.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled in favor of protecting the Pearl River map turtle under the Endangered Species Act on Tuesday. The decision puts a bump in the road for a potential dam ...
Graptemys ocalifera Nutaphand, 1979 ( ex errore) [2] Graptemys oculifera. — H.M. Smith & Brodie, 1982 [3] The ringed map turtle or ringed sawback ( Graptemys oculifera) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae endemic to the southern United States .
Graptemys is a genus of freshwater turtles containing 14 species, commonly known as map turtles. [5] Graptemys are small to medium-sized turtles that are significantly sexually dimorphic, with females in some species attaining as much as twice the length and ten times the mass as males. Depending on the species, adult males range from 7–16 cm ...
The ringed map turtle, also called the ringed sawback (Graptemys oculifera), was designated threatened in 1986, is only found in the Pearl River basin. The alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) designated threatened in 2006. The Pearl River map turtle, thought to be the Pascagoula map turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) until 2010, but was ...
Bogue Chitto NWR is primarily composed of bottomland hardwood habitat interlaced by the Bogue Chitto and Pearl river systems. Numerous sloughs, bayous and lakes are located on the refuge. Water levels fluctuate by several feet from their low point in the summer to winter/spring flood stage. Over 90% of the refuge can be flooded during seasonal ...
Injured by a boat strike near Edisto Beach seven years ago, a rare Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was rescued and nursed back to health by experts at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston.