North American Recent Soft-Shelled Turtles (Family Trionychidae)Webb, Robert G. (Robert Gravem)
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North American Recent Soft-Shelled Turtles (Family Trionychidae)
Webb, Robert G. (Robert Gravem)
Soft-shelled turtles
MISSISSIPPI: _Chickasaw_: USNM 115981, Chookatonkchie Creek. _Clarke_:
USNM 79350-51, 1 mi. W Melvin, Choctaw County, Alabama; USNM 100805,
Enterprise. _Forrest_: WEB 55-586, 1 mi. S Hattiesburg. _Hancock_: AMNH
46780; WEB 54-651, Hickory Creek "near" Kiln. _Lauderdale_: UMMZ 74681,
9 mi. W Meridian; UMMZ 90130, Lake Juanita, 15 mi. W Meridian.
_Lawrence_: KU 47120, TU 17307.1, Pearl River, 9 mi. S Monticello; USNM
7653-54, Pearl River at Monticello. _Lee_: CM 31904, Verona; USNM
115979, Cower's Area near Guntown. _Madison_: USNM 95191, 95193-94,
Pearl River. _Marion_: MCZ 1597, Pearl River at Columbus (designated
type locality). _Pearl River_: CM 21100, Pearl River, 20 mi. W
Poplarville; TU 14362, Hobolochito Creek, 1 mi. N Picayune. _Perry_: WEB
55-580, Beaver Dam Creek, 1 mi. N Richton. _Walthall_: KU 50844, Bogue
Chitto River, Dillon.
SOUTH CAROLINA: _Abbeville_: USNM 7650, Abbeville? (reported by Pickens,
1927:113; locality considered in error by Stejneger, 1944:50; USNM 7650
having only one dark marginal line paralleling rear margin of carapace
is possibly an aberrant specimen--see page 495 of present account).
_Greenwood_: USNM 71681, 73668, Greenwood. _McCormick_: USNM 91310-12,
Savannah River, 5 mi. W Plum Branch; USNM 92521, near Parksville.
_Richland_: AMNH 70724-25, Broad River, Columbia.
NO DATA: USNM 8359 (erroneously reported from Madison, Indiana by
Yarrow, 1882:29 and Hay, 1892:145; see discussion by Cahn, 1937:200, and
Stejneger, 1944:73-75); USNM 131859.
_Records in the literature._--ALABAMA: _Coffee_: Elba (KKA). _Marengo_:
Tombigbee River near Demopolis. _Mobile_: Fig Island (Löding, 1922:47).
FLORIDA: _Jackson_: Chattahoochee River, 8 mi. SE Butler. _Leon_:
Ochlocknee River, NW of Tallahassee (Goin, 1948:304).
GEORGIA: _Bartow_: Etowah River below Allatoona Dam, _ca._ 4 mi. ESE
Cartersville (Crenshaw and Hopkins, 1955:15). _Berrien_: (Knepton,
1956:324). _Emanuel_: Ogeeche River (Schwartz, 1956:19). _Fulton_: Nancy
Creek, Atlanta (Dunston, 1960:278). _Gwinnett_: _Irwin_: (Knepton, _loc.
cit._). _Jenkins_: Ogeeche River near Buckland Creek jct., 2.5 mi. S
Millen. _Liberty_: Camp Stewart, 4 mi. N Hinesville. _Morgan_: Lake
Rutledge (Schwartz, _loc. cit._). _Muscogee_: Columbus (Stejneger,
1944:52). _Wayne_: Altamaha River, 5 mi. N Mt. Pleasant (Schwartz, _loc.
cit._). _Wilcox_: Ocmulgee River, 3-4 mi. SSE Abbeville (Crenshaw and
Hopkins, _op cit._:16, footnote; Schwartz, _loc. cit._).
MISSISSIPPI: _George_: Whiskey Creek (Cook, 1946:185). _Harrison_: near
Biloxi. _Jackson_: Pascagoula Swamp, _ca._ 40 mi. E. Biloxi (Corrington,
1927:101). _Jones_: Eastabuchie. _Lee_: Cain Creek Bottom. _Lincoln_:
Old Brook Creek. _Lowndes_: Tombigbee River, Camp Henry Pratt and
Columbus; Lake Park, Columbus. _Pearl River_: 21 mi. SW Poplarville; 10
mi. W Poplarville; 4 mi. W Poplarville. _Wayne_: Trigg Area (Cook, _loc.
cit._).
NORTH CAROLINA: _Mecklenburg_: Catawba River near Charlotte (Schwartz,
1956:20).
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