EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Graptemys geographica
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Graptemys (Map Turtles)
species..............Graptemys geographica (Common Map Turtle)
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- Original Description
- LeSueur 1817 : 86
- Holotype
- Not designated
- Type Locality
- "marsh, on the borders of Lake Erie" [USA]
- Original name
- Testudo geographica
- Common Name
- Common Map Turtle
- Distribution
- Southwestern Quebec and southeastern Ontario (Canada) west to Minnesota, and south to eastern Kansas, northern Louisiana and central Alabama, USA
- Comments
- Reviewed by McCoy and Vogt (1990).
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