The influence of body size and trophic morphology on the size of molluscen prey of female Texas Map Turtles (Graptemys versa)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 416-418

  Collins, Danielle ^a   Lindeman, Peter V ^a  

^a EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPTEMYS VERSA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34248993330     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. GIBBONS, J. W., AND J. E. LOVICH. 1990. Sexual dimorphism in turtles with emphasis on the slider turtle (Trachemys scripta). Herpetol. Monogr. 4:1-29.
2. LAHANAS, P. N. 1982. Aspects of the life history of the southern black-knobbed sawback, Graptemys nigrinoda delticola. Unpubl. M.S. Thesis, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
3. LINDEMAN, P. V. 2000a. Evolution of the relative width of the head and alveolar surfaces in map turtles (Testudines: Emydidae: Graptemys). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 69:549-576.
4. _. 2000b. Resource use of five sympatric turtle species: Effects of competition, phylogeny, and morphology. Can. J. Zool. 78:992-1008.
5. _. 2006. Diet of the Texas map turtle (Graptemys versa): relationship to sexually dimorphic trophic morphology and changes over five decades as influenced by an invasive mollusk. Chelon. Conserv. Biol. 5:25-31.
6. _, AND M. J. SHARKEY. 2001. Comparative analyses of functional relationships in the evolution of trophic morphology in the map turtles (Emydidae: Graptemys). Herpetologica 57:313-318.
7. MCMAHON, R. F. 1982. The occurrence and spread of the introduced Asiatic freshwater bivalve, Corbicula fluminea (Mueller) in North America: 1924-1981. Nautilus 96:134-141.
8. MOLL, D. 1980. Dirty river turtles. Nat. Hist. 1980(5)42-49.
9. SHEALY, R. M. 1976. The natural history of the Alabama map turtle, Graptemys pulchra Baur, in Alabama. Bull. Florida St. Mus., Biol. Sci. 21:47-111.
10. SHIVELY, S. H., AND M. F. VIDRINE. 1984. Fresh-water mollusks in the alimentary tract of a Mississippi map turtle. Proc. Louisiana Acad. Sci. 47:27-29.
11. STEPHENS, P. R., AND J. J. WIENS. 2003. Ecological diversification and phylogeny of emydid turtles. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 79:577-610.
12. TUCKER, A. D., N. N.FITZSIMMONS, AND J. W. GIBBONS. 1995. Resource partitioning by the estuarine turtle Malaclemys terrapin: trophic, spatial, and temporal foraging constraints. Herpetologica 51:167-181.