SECOND REPORT OF THE SOUTHERN PAINTED TURTLE, CHRYSEMYS DORSALIS (TESTUDINES: EMYDIDAE), FROM TEXAS, WITH COMMENTS ON ITS GENETIC RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER POPULATIONS

摘要

The southern painted turtle, Chrysemys dorsalis (Agassiz 1857) is a medium-sized emydid turtle that ranges from western Tennessee south through Alabama and Mississippi and westward to eastern Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas (Ernst 1971; Iverson 1992; Conant & Collins 1998; Dixon 2002; Trauth et al.