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Rio Grande cooter

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Rio Grande cooter
Rio Grande Cooter at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas
A baby Rio Grande Cooter from Kinney County, Texas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.

Geographic range

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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

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

Etymology

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c Rhodin 2011, p. 000.181
  3. ^ a b 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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Further reading

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  • Ernst CH (1990). "Pseudemys gorzugi Ward, Rio Grande Cooter". Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (461): 1–2. (Pseudemys gorzugi, new status).
  • Ernst CH, Lovich JE (2009). Turtles of the United States and Canada, Second Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xii + 827 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9121-2. (Pseudemys gorzugi, pp. 377–380).
  • Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT (2016). Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 plates, 207 figures. ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (Pseudemys gorzugi, pp. 214–215, Figure 95).
  • Ward JP (1984). "Relationships of the chrysemyd turtles of North America (Testudines: Emydidae)". Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Technological University 21: 1-50. (Pseudemys concinna gorzugi, new subspecies, p. 29, figure 6).