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Scientific Names of Turtles

colorfulcritters May 23, 2005 09:02 PM

I don't mean for anyone to have to do my homework for me, but I'm stumped. What are the scientific names of American map turtles, red ear sliders, and yellow belly sliders?

I need to know this in order to obtain a permit from the FWS, since I live overseas right now.

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canidman May 23, 2005 11:43 PM

Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)
Yellowbelly Slider (Trachemys scripta scripta)

Barbours Map Turtle (Graptemys barbouri)
Cagles Map Turtle (Graptemys caglei)
Escambia Map Turtle (Graptemys ernsti)
Yellow-Blotched Map Turtle (Graptemys flavimaculata)
Texas Map Turtle (Graptemys versa)
Alabama Map Turtle (Graptemys pulchra)
False Map Turtle (Graptemys p. pseudogeographica)
Mississippi Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii)
Common Map Turtle (Graptemys geographica)
Ouachita Map Turtle (Graptemys o. ouachitensis)
Sabine Map Turtle (Graptemys ouachitensis sabinensis)
Ringed Map Turtle (Graptemys oculifera)
Black-Knobbed Map Turtle (Graptemys n. nigrinoda)
Delta Map Turtle (Graptemys nigrinoda delticola)
Pascagoula Map Turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi)

There, I did your homework for ya!
(source : www.cnah.org)

colorfulcritters May 25, 2005 03:01 AM

Hey, thanks a bunch. I'll submit it ASAP. I just wonder why the FWS wants this, to see if these are non-native species, or what?

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