The postnatal skull of the extant North American turtle Pseudemys texana (Cryptodira: Emydidae), with comments on the study of discrete intraspecific variation

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-128

  Bever, Gabe S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial anatomy; Ontogeny; Ossification; Reptilia; Testudines; Variability; Variation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKULL; TURTLES;

CRYPTODIRA; EMYDIDAE; PSEUDEMYS TEXANA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINOIDEA;

EID: 58549088310     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: 10974687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10677     Document Type: Article

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