EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Graptemys nigrinoda
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Graptemys (Map Turtles)
species..............Graptemys nigrinoda (Black-knobbed Map Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Cagle 1954 : 173
- Holotype
- TU 14662
- Type Locality
- "Black Warrior River, above Lock 9, 17.5 miles SSW of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama" [USA]
- Original name
- Graptemys nigrinoda
- Common Name
- Black-knobbed Map Turtle
- Distribution
- Tombigbee, Black Warrior and Alabama river basins in Alabama and Mississippi, USA
- Comments
- Reviewed by Mount (1975) and Lahanas (1986).
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