Rio Grande cooter

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Rio Grande cooter
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Rio Grande Cooter at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas
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A baby Rio Grande Cooter from Kinney County, Texas
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Pseudemys
Species:
P. gorzugi
Binomial name
Pseudemys gorzugi
Ward, 1984 [2]
Synonyms [3]
  • Pseudemys concinna gorzugi
    Ward, 1984
  • Pseudemys gorzugi
    Ernst, 1990

The Rio Grande cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to northeastern Mexico and the adjacent southwestern United States.

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Geographic range

The Rio Grande cooter is found in the Rio Grande drainage of Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas), New Mexico, and Texas. [2] [3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. gorzugi is freshwater wetlands, at altitudes of 259–1,082 m (850–3,550 ft). [1] [4]

Etymology

The specific name, gorzugi, is in honor of George R. Zug, the Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles at the National Museum of Natural History. [5] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 van Dijk PP (2011). "Pseudemys gorzugi (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T18459A97425928. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T18459A8297596.en. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Rhodin 2011, p. 000.181
  3. 1 2 Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 195. doi: 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 .
  4. Species Pseudemys gorzugi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  5. Beltz, Ellin (2006). Scientific and Common Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America – Explained. ebeltz.net/herps/biogappx.html#B.
  6. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudemys gorzugi, pp. 104, 294).

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