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Title: Description of a New Softshell Turtle From the Southeastern United States

Author: Robert G. Webb

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 11, No. 9, pp. 517-525, 2 pls., 1 fig.
August 14, 1959

Description of a New Softshell Turtle
From the Southeastern United States

BY

ROBERT G. WEBB

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1959

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 11, No. 9, pp. 517-525, 2 pls., 1 Fig.
Published August 14, 1959

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1959

27-8360

Description of a New Softshell Turtle
From the Southeastern United States

BY

ROBERT G. WEBB

Examination of softshell turtles allied to _Trionyx muticus_ from the
southeastern United States discloses the presence of an undescribed
subspecies inhabiting river systems of the Gulf Coast.

The author is indebted to Mr. Roger Conant for constructive criticism
of the manuscript. I am grateful also to many fellow students for
assistance in field work or for other courtesies, especially William E.
Brode, Franklin Sogandares-Bernal, Ernest A. Liner, Donald W. Tinkle,
Paul K. Anderson, and John K. Greer. The photographs were provided
through the cooperation of Roger and Isabelle Hunt Conant and John M.
Legler.

Collections from which specimens were obtained are as follows: TU
(Tulane University), USNM (United States National Museum), MCZ (Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College), CNHM (Chicago Natural History
Museum), KU (Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas), UI
(Museum of Natural History, University of Illinois).

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