Morphological Variation in Pseudemys 133 



males. Plastral ground color in living specimens yellow to orange. 

 P. concinna 



Head and neck stripes few, less than 11. No C-shaped mark on 

 second pleural scute and figure absent from plastron. Posterior shell 

 depth (at vertebral III-IV sulcus) 36-38% of carapace length in 

 females and 32-33% in males. Plastral ground color in living 

 specimens pale yellow P. floridana 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Pseudemys rubriventris 

 New Jersey: MES 132, 1751. North Carolina: MES 1896. NCSM 9360, 

 16669-70, 16672, 17910, 20116, 20166, 22818, 25080, 28658-59, 28704, 

 28752-53, 28871, 28897, 28899, 29275-76, 29278, 30034. CM 53026. 

 AMNH 72746, 80218-19, 81869, 90640-44. Pennsylvania: CM 27420, 

 28969, 29400, 29457, 29502, 31244, 32651. Virginia: AMNH 129302, 

 129312. CM 13262, 23136. CM(field series) 53632, 53634, 53636, 53695. 

 USNM (field series) 114462, 140441-47, 140759, 157085-88, 157853, 

 158685, 158881, 159362, 159366, 159568-69, 159572-73. MES 188-90. 

 West Virginia: CM 26630. MES 1902. 



Pseudemys concinna 

 North Carolina: NCSM 6184, 8518, 11364, 11373, 13759, 13810, 13966, 

 15030, 15135, 17045, 17276, 17339, 17938, 19169, 19356, 19432,20128, 

 20236, 20240, 20253, 22966, 24030, 24182, 25044, 25281, 25205-06, 

 25234, 25265, 26061, 26225, 26525-27, 28688, 29279, 29595, 29968-69, 

 30038, 30280-81, 30431-34. USNM(field series) 158447. South Carolina: 

 MES 1790, 1875. SREL 2137, 2229. Virginia: USNM(field series) 

 141102, 141105, 141364, 158811. MES 489. West Virginia: MES 863. 



Pseudemys floridana 

 North Carolina: NCSM 5881, 5883-85, 5927-30, 10330, 1 1365, 13812-16, 

 14783, 16476, 17046, 17302, 17581-82, 19353-54, 20190, 20678, 20928, 

 21001-02, 21603, 23405, 24334, 25737, 25739, 25833, 26344, 26528, 

 28657, 28705, 28740, 28898, 29301, 29617, 30001, 30291-92, 30423-30. 

 USNM(field series) 158448. South Carolina: AMNH 50985. SREL 

 0117. Virginia: CM 24447. MES 1900. USNM(field series) 159365. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.— We are indebted to the following 

 persons and institutions for loan of museum material: W. Auffenburg 

 and D. Auth, Florida Museum of Natural History; J. Cole and M. 

 Klemens, American Museum of Natural History; J. W. Gibbons, 

 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory; C. J. McCoy, Carnegie Museum 



