Comprehensive Description
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Graptemys pseudogeographica versa Stejneger, 1925
[= Graptemys versa Stejneger, 1925; fide, Smith, 1948:60, Vogt, 1981:280.1]
Stejneger, 1925, J. Washington Acad. Sci. 15(20):463.
Holotype: USNM 27473 (alcoholic adult male, CL 87 mm, rear scute missing), collector unknown, Jul 1900, donated by Herbert H. and Clement S. Brimley.
Type Locality: “Austin, Texas” [Travis County, Texas].
Paratypes: USNM 27474 (alcoholic male, CL 89 mm); USNM 27475 (alcoholic male, CL 87 mm); USNM 27476 (alcoholic male, CL 85 mm); USNM 27477 (alcoholic male, CL 90 mm); USNM 27478 (alcoholic male, CL 95 mm); USNM 27479 (alcoholic male, CL 74 mm); and USNM 27480 (alcoholic specimen, exchanged, see “Remarks”); all collected at the type locality, collector unknown, Jul 1900.
Other Type Material: Paratype: MCZ 42346 (see “Remarks”).
Etymology: The name versa is from the Latin vers, to change; refers to its head pattern differing from that of Graptemys p. pseudogeographica.
Remarks: Paratype USNM 27480 was exchanged to the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ 42346), 9 Dec 1936.
- bibliographic citation
- Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626
