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Graptemys gibbonsi LOVICH & MCCOY, 1992

IUCN Red List - Graptemys gibbonsi - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaEmydidae, Deirochelyinae, Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Pascagoula Map Turtle, Pearl River Map Turtle, Gibbons’ Map Turtle 
SynonymGraptemys gibbonsi LOVICH & MCCOY 1992
Graptemys gibbonsi — CROTHER 2000
Graptemys gibbousi [sic] — OBST 2003: 16
Graptemys pulchra gibbonsi
Graptemys gibbonsi — RHODIN et al. 2010
Graptemys gibbonsi — TTWG 2021 
DistributionUSA (Mississippi: Pascagoula River)

Type locality: "Chickasawhay River, Leakesville, Greene County, Mississippi, USA."  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: CM (Carnegie Museum) 94979, an adult male collected by R.C. Vogt, M. Pappas, and P.S. Freed on 21July 1978. 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Populations from Mississippi and eastern Louisiana have been assigned to Graptemys pearlensis. Praschag et al. 2017 found that G. ernsti, G. gibbonsi, G. pearlensis and G. pulchra are nearly identical genetically and, thus, likely conspecific.

Diet: carnivore.

Conservation: One of the top five endangered turtles in North America.

Habitat: freshwater (lakes, rivers) 
EtymologyNamed in honor of Dr. J. Whitfield Gibbons of the University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here
  • Buhlmann, Kurt; Tracey Tuberville & Whit Gibbons 2008. TURTLES OF THE SOUTHEAST. University of Georgia Press, Athens, iv + 264 pp.
  • Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
  • Ennen, Joshua R.; Jeffrey E. Lovich, Brian R. Kreiser, W. Selman, Carl P. Qualls 2010. Genetic and Morphological Variation Between Populations of the Pascagoula Map Turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) in the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers with Description of a New Species. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 9 (1): 98–113 - get paper here
  • Ernst, Carl H.; Lovich, Jeffrey E. 2009. Turtles of the United States and Canada, 2nd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 827 pp. - get paper here
  • Graham, Sean P.; Chelsea K. Ward, Jennifer Shelby Walker, Sean Sterrett, and Mary T. Mendonça 2015. Sexual Dimorphism and Seasonal Variation of Reproductive Hormones in the Pascagoula Map Turtle, Graptemys gibbonsi. Copeia 2015 (1): 42-50 - get paper here
  • Kirkpatrick, David 1993. Map turtles of the United States. Reptile & Amphibian magazine (November/December): 7-17
  • Lechowicz, Christopher. 2008. Tour d'horizon de l'histoire naturelle, la taxonomie, la préservation et les problémes actuels des tortues géographiques du genre Graptemys (Agassiz, 1857). Chéloniens 11:30-45
  • Lindeman, Peter V. 2017. Geographic Distribution: Graptemys gibbonsi (Pascagoula Map Turtle). Herpetological Review 48 (1): 122-123 - get paper here
  • Lovich J E; McCoy C J 1994. Graptemys gibbonsi Lovich and McCoy, Pascagoula map turtle. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 586: 1-2 - get paper here
  • Lovich, J.E. & McCoy,C.J. 1992. Review of the Graptemys pulchra group (Reptilia: Testudines: Emydidae), with descriptions of two new species. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 61 (4): 293-315 - get paper here
  • Lovich, Jeffery E. and Joshua R. Ennen. 2014. Graptemys gibbonsi Lovich and McCoy - Pascagoula Map Turtle. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (901): 1-8 - get paper here
  • Lovich, Jeffrey E.; WiLL SeLman, and c.J. mccoy 2009. Graptemys gibbonsi Lovich and McCoy 1992 – Pascagoula Map Turtle, Pearl River Map Turtle, Gibbons’ Map Turtle. Chelonian Research Monographs 5: 29.1-8 - get paper here
  • McCoy, C. J.; Oscar A. Flores-Villela, Richard C. Vogt, Michael Pappas & J. Kelly McCoy 2020. Ecology of Riverine Turtle Communities in the Southern United States: Food Resource Use and Trophic Niche Dimensions Chelonian Conservation and Biology 19 (2): 197-208 - get paper here
  • Obst, F.J. 2003. Sumpfschildkröten. Draco 4 (13): 4-18 - get paper here
  • Praschag P, Ihlow F, Flecks M, Vamberger M, Fritz U. 2017. Diversity of North American map and sawback turtles (Testudines: Emydidae: Graptemys). Zoologica Scripta 46: 675– 682 - get paper here
  • Praschag, Reiner 2023. Sägerücken- und Höckerschildkröten der Gattung Graptemys – eine artenreiche Gattung der Sumpfschildkröten. Elaphe 2023 (5): 12-23
  • Seidel, Michael E. & Carl H. Ernst 2017. A Systematic Review of the Turtle Family Emydidae. Vertebrate Zoology 67 (1): 1–122 - get paper here
  • Selman, W. & Qualls, C. 2009. DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF TWO IMPERILED GRAPTEMYS SPECIES OF THE PASCAGOULA RIVER SYSTEM. Herp. Cons. Biol. 4 (2):171-184 - get paper here
  • Stephens, P.R. & Wiens, J.J. 2003. Ecological diversification and phylogeny of emydid turtles. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 79: 577-610 - get paper here
  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J.; van Dijk, P.P.; Iverson, J.B. & Shaffer, H.B. [turtle taxonomy working group] 2010. Turtles of the World, 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v3.2010 - get paper here
  • Vogt, R C; McCoy, C J & Pappas, M; 2019. Graptemys gibbonsi (Pascagoula Map Turtle) Reproduction. Herpetological Review 50 (3): 557 - get paper here
  • Vučenović, Jelena & Peter V. Lindeman 2021. The Diets of the Pearl and Pascagoula Map Turtles (Graptemys pearlensis and Graptemys gibbonsi). Herpetologica Jun 2021 Vol. 77, No. 2: 121-127 - get paper here
 
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