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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]
Mississippi mud turtle Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis: Scientific classification; ... The greatest species richness is in Mexico, and only three species (K. dunni, ...
The eastern mud turtle is a small and often hard to identify species. It measures 3–4 in (7.6–10.2 cm) in carapace length. The carapace is keelless, lacks any pattern, and varies in color from yellowish to black.
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 ...
Beach crews have found the first sea turtle nest on the Mississippi mainland in four years. A Harrison County Sand Beach crew that was cleaning up found what appeared to be turtle tracks just east ...
[3] [15] However, in the United States, only the Alabama red-bellied turtle is legally an endangered species. [132] The loggerhead sea turtle is only considered "threatened" under U.S. regulations. [133] Two species are IUCN Vulnerable: the desert tortoise (California and Nevada) and the gopher tortoise (Georgia, also the official tortoise of ...
A review of zoo records published in 1992 identified the maximum period of time that many species of Graptemys lived in captivity in North American zoos, ranging from eight to 35 years, including: Barbour's map turtle (G. barbouri) 31 years 8 months; false map turtle (G. pseudogeographica ssp.) 32 years and 6 months; Mississippi map turtle (G ...
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]