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Title: A New Subspecies of Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, Mexico

Author: John M. Legler

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 13, No. 3, pp. 73-84, pls. 9-12, 3 figs.
August 16, 1960

A New Subspecies of Slider Turtle
(Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, Mexico

BY

JOHN M. LEGLER

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1960

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

Volume 13, No. 3, pp. 73-84, pls. 9-12, 3 figs.
Published August 16, 1960

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1960

28-3860

A New Subspecies of Slider Turtle
(Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, Mexico

BY

JOHN M. LEGLER

In September, 1958, the author and two colleagues collected a large
series of _Pseudemys_ in small ponds and in a river in the basin of
Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila. The specimens prove to represent a
previously unrecognized subspecies of _Pseudemys scripta_. The
subspecies is named in honor of Edward Harrison Taylor who has
contributed mo