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The common name, Mississippi map turtle, derives not from the state of Mississippi, but rather from the Mississippi River. [citation needed] The specific name, kohnii, is in honor of amateur naturalist Joseph Gustave Kohn (1837–1906) of New Orleans, Louisiana, who collected the type specimen. [4] [3]
The state of Mississippi list the yellow-blotched map turtle (G. flavimaculata) as threatened and the ringed map turtle (G. oculifera) and black-knobbed map turtle (G. nigrinoda) as endangered. [30] In Alabama , all six species of map turtles occurring in the state are classified as nongame species protected by the state. [ 31 ]
The red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) is the most common of the pond and river turtles, although river cooters (Pseudemys concinna), Mississippi map turtles (Graptemys pseudogeographica), Sabine map turtles (Graptemys sabinensis), and the rare chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) all occur there. The worldwide distribution of the Sabine ...
It would create a 2.562-acre lake. The swirling waters of the Pearl River, just north of the Ross Barnett Reservoir Dam, far breach its banks the morning of Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.
The Pearl River Map Turtle was discovered by researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2010 and was officially inducted into the “endangered species” category by the U.S. Fish ...
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The Pascagoula map turtle is restricted to the Pascagoula River system in the state of Mississippi in the United States. [4] It formerly included a population in the Pearl River, but in 2010, that population was described as a separate species, the Pearl River map turtle, Graptemys pearlensis. [5]
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.