Courtship Behavior Provides Additional Evidence for a Monophyletic Pseudemys, and Comments on Mesoamerican Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 70-72

  Seidel, Michael E ^a   Fritz, Uwe ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Staatliches Mus Tierkunde F   (Germany)

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