| coccidia (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from the big bend slider, trachemys gaigeae (testudines: emydidae), in new mexico. | twenty-nine big bend sliders trachemys gaigeae (hartweg, 1934) were collected from socorro county, new mexico, and their feces examined for coccidial parasites. three (10%) of the turtles were found to be infected with at least 1 coccidian. seven eimeria spp. (e. chrysemydis, e. graptemydos, e. marginata, e. pseudemydis, e. pseudogeographica, e. stylosa, and e. trachemydis) were harbored by t. gaigeae. all represent new host and distributional records for these previously described coccidians. i ... | 1995 | 7472884 |
| genetic variation and admixture of red-eared sliders (trachemys scripta elegans) in the usa. | the most ubiquitous, abundant, and invasive turtle on earth, trachemys scripta elegans (tse, "red-eared slider"), is one of four taxa in a clade that is native to the usa and adjacent mexico (three subspecies of trachemys scripta plus trachemys gaigeae). the present range-wide study of this clade is based on 173 known-locality mtdna sequences combined with ddrad libraries for 43 samples emphasizing the western part of the range of tse, its contact with that of t. gaigeae, and anthropogenic hybri ... | 2020 | 31874235 |
| morphometric data for five freshwater turtles in south, central, and west texas. | from 2008 to 2013, we sampled freshwater turtle populations at 66 sites in south, central, and west texas, usa. sampling sites included ponds, lakes, resacas (oxbow lakes), canals, and rivers. we sampled turtle populations using baited hoop nets (66 sites) and basking traps (3 sites), and captured turtles by hand opportunistically in terrestrial habitat. we measured carapace length and width, plastron length and width, body depth, and weight of captured turtles. excluding recaptures, we measured ... | 2020 | 32195296 |