ALABAMA AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES, i5 



PSEUDEMYS MOBILIENSIS (Holbrook) 



{Chrysemys mobiliensis) 



Mobile Terrapin 



Type locality: Mobile, Alabama. 



General distribution : Southern portions of the Gulf 

 States. 



Alabama records : Mobile Bay. 



Dr. Thomas Barbour of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., states that: "According to 

 present usage Pseudemys mobiliensis is a synonym of 

 Pseudemys concinna (LeConte)." (The recorded range 

 for that species is from Maryland to Georgia.) 



This and the preceding species are of much economic 

 value to the State as a source of food supply." 



PSEUDEMYS ELEGANS (Wied) Cope 

 {Chryse7nys elegans) 



CUMRERLAND TERRAPIN 



Type locality: Nev^ Harmony, Indiana. 

 General distribution : Southern Texas and Mississip- 

 pi basin north to Iowa, northern Indiana and Ohio. 

 Alabama records : Near Anniston, Calhoun County. 



PSEUDEMYS HIEROGLYPHICA (Holbrook) Garman 

 (Hieroglyphic Terrapin) 



Type locality : Cumberland River, Tennessee. 



General distribution : Ditmars in his Reptile Book 

 gives Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The Stejneger- 

 Barbour list gives the range as Rivers of Southern Ap- 

 palachians. 



Alabama records : The Alabama Museum of Natural 

 History contains nine old specimens, presumably collect- 

 ed by Prof. Tuomey in the vicinity of Tuscaloosa about 

 the middle of the last century. 



GENUS: DIEROCHELYS, Agassiz. 



DIEROCHELYS RETICULARIA (Latreille) Gray 



{Chrysemys reticulatus) 



Chicken Turtle 



Type locality : Carolina. 



