Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

An adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Sumner County, Kansas. Image by Larry L. Miller.
An adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Sedgwick County, Kansas. Image © Dexter Mardis.
An adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Sedgwick County, Kansas. Image © Dexter Mardis.
An adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Kingman County. Image © Ken Brunson.
Adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Wilson County. Image © Suzanne L. Collins, CNAH.
Adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Sumner County. Image © Suzanne L. Collins, CNAH.
An adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Neosho County, Kansas. Image © Suzanne L. Collins, CNAH.
Adult Ouachita Map Turtle from Linn County. Image © Suzanne L. Collins, CNAH.
REPTILIA (Reptiles) TESTUDINES (Turtles) EMYDIDAE (Box and Basking Turtles)

Ouachita Map Turtle
Graptemys ouachitensis Cagle, 1953
grăp-tĕm-ēz — wătch-ĭ-tĕn-sĭs

Conservation Status:
State: None
Federal: None
NatureServe State: S4 - Apparently Secure
NatureServe National: N5 - Secure
NatureServe Global: G5 - Secure
CITES: Appendix III
Diagnosis:
 False and Ouachita Map Turtles can be differentiated from each other by the shape and placement of the markings on their head. The individual head markings are not always visible (a turtle in hand with its head concealed) and even when the marking are visible they may show characteristics of both species. There is not currently a method to differentiate them by the shape or coloration of their shell. Mahr (2020) trapped map turtles extensively in eastern Kansas and revisited museum specimens, much of the distribution information presented herein tentatively follows his species assignments of those data.
The semiaquatic False and Ouachita Map Turtle is characterized by a short tail, a rigid upper and lower shell, an upper shell with a roughly jagged rear edge, a distinct high raised keel down the middle of the upper shell, and a short bar or crescent-shaped mark behind the eye, with light head stripes passing beneath this bar or mark to reach the eye. The upper shell is olive or brownish, with thin, light, yellowish lines and black spots. The high keel down the middle of the shell is marked with dark brown or black. The lower shell is cream or yellow and often smudged with dark gray but has no pattern. The limbs and tail are olive, brownish, or gray with narrow yellow stripes. The head is olive, gray, or brownish, and the bar or crescent-shaped mark and head stripes are yellow. Adult males have long claws on the front feet and have longer tails than females. Females are much larger than males.
The range of head markings on the False Map Turtle (G. pseudogeographica) is quite variable. Typically, they have a prominent (yet thin) yellow line behind each eye on the top of the head. The inside of each line tapers toward the mid-line of the head and turns toward the neck. In many specimens, the bar behind the eye will form a thin crescent around the back of the eye on the side of the head.
The head markings of the Ouachita Map Turtle (G. ouachitensis) are less variable and consist of a large squarish blotch behind each eye on the top of the head, which tapers abruptly toward the mid-line and then turns toward the neck. They typically possess a prominent yellow spot between their eye and mouth on each side of the head, and another below it on the lower jaw. In a few specimens, the large blotch behind the eyes may connect with the spot below the eye, to form a thicker jagged 'angled' crescent.
Adults are normally 90-200 mm (3½-8 inches) in carapace length. The largest specimen from Kansas is a female (KU Color Slide 11236) from Riley County with a carapace length of 256 mm (10 inches) collected by Steven Seitz and Robert Seitz on 2 August 1996. The maximum carapace length throughout the range is 10‌5⁄8 inches (Powell et al., 2016).
Distribution:
 The Ouachita Map Turtle (G. ouachitensis) is known from the following river basins in Kansas; Marais des Cygnes, Spring, Neosho, Verdigris, Fall, Walnut, and Arkansas/Pawnee [to Pawnee County]. There are localized populations along the Kansas River to Geary County.
These turtles are found in the rivers and streams of eastern Kansas, making it out onto the plains along the Arkansas, Pawnee, Saline, Smoky Hill, and Solomon Rivers
Localities mapped in Collins (1994) from Coffey County (KU 3287-8) are too imprecise to map. Pleistocene fossils are known from Meade County. This record lies well west of the currently recognized distribution of this species.
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  • Occurrence Summary:  
  • 1,115
    Records 
  • 134
    Museum Vouchers 
  • 981
    Other Observations 
Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
 County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
 Allen (7); Anderson (4); Bourbon (165); Butler (1); Chase (64); Chautauqua (18); Cherokee (73); Coffey (62); Cowley (131); Crawford (1); Dickinson (1); Elk (12); Franklin (53); Greenwood (34); Harper (1); Harvey (13); Johnson (1); Kingman (9); Labette (11); Leavenworth (1); Linn (1); Lyon (295); Marion (4); Miami (5); Montgomery (6); Morris (15); Neosho (5); Osage (27); Pottawatomie (1); Pratt (1); Sedgwick (20); Sumner (19); Wabaunsee (1); Wilson (46); Woodson (7);

Fossil History:
 Pleistocene fossils are known from Meade County. This record lies well west of the currently recognized distribution of this species.
Natural History:
 This turtle inhabits large rivers, backwaters, sloughs, lakes, and ponds. It is found in still, slow, and fast -moving water and prefers an abundance of aquatic vegetation.
The False/Ouachita Map Turtle is normally active from April to October, although it will emerge to bask on sunny winter days. During the winter, it burrows into soft mud or in muskrat dens. Capron (1987) found False/Ouachita Map Turtles floating dead or frozen in ice during winter and speculated they remained active too late in the fall and were killed by rapidly falling temperatures. During the warmer months, this reptile basks for hours on perches over water in the sun, far removed from shoreline. It very rarely ventures onto land except to nest. Capron (1986, 1987) observed this species basking on logs in the lower Arkansas River valley at air temperatures as low as 42°F and as early as 4 February. He estimated 100- 120 of these turtles per river mile in the lower Arkansas River valley.
False/Ouachita Map Turtles usually mate during the spring. Females may lay up to three clutches per season. Courtship consists of the male first swimming over the female, then abruptly facing her and stroking her head and chin with the long claws on his front feet. The female settles to the bottom, and the male follows and mounts her.
Nesting occurs periodically throughout the spring and summer. The female digs a 127 mm (5 inch) hole in loose soil with her hind feet. Each female may lay from 5- 13 elongate white eggs. On 27 June, Michael V. Plummer (pers. comm., 1974; Collins 1993) discovered two clutches of eggs of this species in Douglas County on a sandbar of the Kansas River, four feet above the water level and twenty feet from its edge. The clutches numbered 5 and 12 and hatched on 10 September.
The young had shell lengths of approximately 25-32 mm (1- 1¼ inches). Capron (1987) observed nesting by this turtle from mid to late June along the lower Arkansas River and recorded one large female laying eggs on a sandbar 28 yards from the river edge on 27 June at 1400 hours with an air temperature of 87°F. Eric M. Rundquist (pers. comm. 1989; Collins 1993) recorded a clutch of seven eggs laid on 26 May by a female from Cowley County.
This species is mostly carnivorous, feeding on crayfishes, insects, worms, and dead fishes. It also eats water plants (Collins 1993).
Both species can often be observed from bridges over the streams where they occur. Like other map turtles, the males are much smaller than the females.
Occurrence Activity:
 Number of Unique Obervations (=days): 103; Range: 10 Feb to 16 Dec
Remarks:
 First reported in Kansas by Hallowell (1857) from a specimen donated by Fort Riley military surgeon William A. Hammond that was collected near Fort Riley. The earliest existing specimens were collected in 1911 from Montgomery County (KU 3297-9; Verdigris River in July) and Osage County (KU 3164; Long Creek; no other associated data).
Burt (1933) when discussing Graptemys geographica mentioned "A small turtle (K.S.C. 374), which apparently belongs to this species, was secured near Manhattan, Riley County, by J. B. Norton, in July, 1897.", this specimen is likely Graptemys ouachitensis/pseudogeographica.
Many of the museum specimens from Kansas do not permit examination of head coloration or exist only as a dried plastron/carapace. Consequently, we cannot with certainty assign any particular specimen to a species and have elected instead, to retain the complex which recognizes that separate, but cryptic, species do exist. Genetic analyses coupled with the additional morphological examination are needed to adequately address the distribution and status of all three species of this complex in the state.
Based on a captive specimen, Snider and Bowler (1992) reported a maximum longevity for this species of 32 years, six months, and one day.
Bibliography:
1856 Hallowell, Edward. Notice of a collection of reptiles from Kansas and Nebraska presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences, by Doctor Hammond, U. S. A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 8():238-253
Contains reference to twenty-four species collected from 'Kansas', and includes the original description of Microps lineatus (=Tropidoclonion lineatum) from Kansas on page 241.
1857 Agassiz, Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Volume 1. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Massachusets. 452pp.
Original description of Cistudo triunguis p. 445.
Discusses the regional faunas and includes Kansas in the "Western Fauna" pp. 450-451, with such characteristic species as Apalone mutica, Apalone spinifera, Chelydra serpentina, Chrysemys picta, Graptemys geographica, Graptemys pseudogeographica, Kinosternon subrubrum, Pseudemys concinna, Sternotherus odoratus, and Trachemys scripta, though none are listed as definitively occurring in Kansas.
1880 Cragin, Francis W. A preliminary catalogue of Kansas reptiles and batrachians Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 7():112-123
Also listed the Scarlet Snake (Cemophora coccinea) [=Ophibolus doliatus var. coccineus] and Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) [=Spelerpes ruber] from Kansas.
1882 Yarrow, Henry C. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249
A summary of all herpetological species known at the time, with reference to specimens in the United States National Museum. Including one three Acris blanchardi from Fort Riley; Agkistrodon contortrix from Fort Riley; three Ambystoma mavortium from "Kansas" and another from Fort Riley; one Anaxyrus woodhousii from "Kansas"; one Anaxyrus cognatus from "Kansas" and another from Fort Riley; one Carphophis vermis from Fort Scott; three Coluber constrictor from "Kansas" and two from Fort Riley; one Crotalus horridus from 1858; one Diadophis punctatus from Hyatt [Hyette sic], Kansas (Anderson County); one Graptemys pseudogeographica from the Republican River in Kansas;   two Heterodon nasicus from Fort Riley; one Lampropeltis calligaster from Neosho Falls; one Lampropeltis holbrooki from Fort Riley, one from "Natchez", Kansas, and one other from Shawnee Mission, Kansas;one Lampropeltis gentilis from Fort Riley and one other from the Republican River, Kansas; one Pantherophis obsoletus from Fort Riley;fourteen Phrynosoma douglassi from "Kansas" and four from Fort Riley; three Phrynosoma cornutum from Fort Riley (Riley County);  three Pituophis catenifer from "Platte Valley", Kansas [likely from eastern Colorado prior to 1861] and two specimens from Fort Riley; one Plestiodon septentrionalis from Neosho Falls (Woodson County); one Plestiodon obsoletus from Fort Riley; one Thamnophis sirtalis from "Kansas"; one Nerodia sipedon from Fort Riley and another from Neosho Falls; one Scincella lateralis from Fort Scott (Bourbon County); one Thamnophis proximus from Fort Riley; four Sceloporus consobrinus from Fort Riley; one Tantilla nigriceps from Fort Riley; four Thamnophis sirtalis from "Kansas" and two from Little Blue River, Kansas; 
1885 Cragin, Francis W. Recent additions to the list of Kansas reptiles and batrachians, with further notes on species previously reported. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(3):100-103
1885 Cragin, Francis W. Second contribution to the herpetology of Kansas, with observations on the Kansas fauna. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 9():136-140
1911 Hurter, Julius. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274
1916 Householder, Victor H. The Lizards and Turtles of Kansas with Notes on Their Distribution and Habitat. Thesis. University of Kansas, Lawrence. 100pp.
1922 Loding, H. P. A preliminary catalogue of Alabama amphibians and reptiles. Geological Survey of Alabama, Museum Paper (5):59
1927 Burt, Charles E. An annotated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Riley County, Kansas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (189):12
Accounts on forty species known from the vicinity of Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas. There have been several scientific names changes since publication, which is understandable... however, some usages cannot be explained by subsequent taxonomic reappraisals(e.g.  Gastrophryne carolinensis for Gastrophryne olivacea). The writer lists Eumeces (=Plestiodon) obsoletus and E. guttulatus yet correctly reasoning that the latter is the young of the former. Within the account of Tantilla gracilis (a common form) the writer mentions that T. nigriceps was reported from Riley County by Branson (1904) but that the specimens at Kansas State were absent at the time of publication. The Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) was first reported from Riley County by Branson (1904) and is reported by the writer based on a specimen in the museum at Kansas State University by Professor E. A. Popenoe. The Prairie Rattlesnake is not currently native to Riley County, and closest reliable localities are 150 to the west.
1928 Ortenburger, Arthur I. The whip snakes and racers: Genera Masticophis and Coluber. Memiors of the University of Michigan Museum (1):1-247
1931 Haltom, William L. Alabama reptiles. Alabama Museum of Natural History Museum Paper (11):1-145
1933 Stejneger, Leonhard H. and Thomas Barbour. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 3rd Edition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.
Reference to Kansas is the listed range of several species.
1933 Burt, Charles E. Some distributional and ecological records of Kansas reptiles. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 26():186-208
1936 Brumwell, Malcolm J. Distributional records of the reptilia and amphibians of Kansas. Privately printed, . 22pp.
County dot maps of the Kansas herpetofauna. This work has been attributed to have been written around 1933, but that may be in error. 
Hypsiglena jani was not known from Kansas until Claude W. Hibbard collected three specimens on the Stevenson Ranch in north-central Clark County (above Clark State Lake) during June 1936 (Hibbard, 1937). Brumwell plotted this locality, which leads me to believe that the 1936 would have been the earliest date this manuscript could have been written.
1942 Hudson, G. E. The amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska. Nebraska Conservation Bulletin 24():1-146
1947 Hall, Henry H. and Hobart M. Smith. Selected records of reptiles and amphibians from southeastern Kansas Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 49(4):447-454
Report on certain Kansas specimens housed in the collection at what is now Pittsburg State University. Included are several species of dubious status today, including Cryptobranchus alleganiensis from the Neosho and Spring rivers (the only specimens from those significant drainages ever documented), Ambystoma maculatum from just north of Pittsburg, Crawford County, Heterodon nasicus from Crawford County, Opheodrys vernalis from Crawford County, Sonora episcopa from Crawford County, Agkistrodon piscivorus from Cherokee County, Crotalus atrox from Crawford County, and Crotalus viridis from Crawford County. They report several significant range extensions including Kinosternon flavescens from Turkey Creek in southeast Cherokee County, Graptemys geographica from just north of Pittsburg, Crotaphytus collaris from near Columbus, Cherokee County, Sceloporus consobrinus from just north of Pittsburg, Phrynosoma cornutum from Cherokee and Crawford counties, Heterodon platirhinos from Cherokee and Crawford counties, Haldea striatula from Crawford County, Sistrurus tergeminus from Crawford County, and a 402 lb Macrochelys temminckii in Cherokee County from just east of Chetopa (Labette County). They allude to the potential for Anaxyrus fowleri to occur in southeast Kansas and for native populations of Crotalus atrox in south central Kansas (in part from the disclosure that John R. Breukelman [then of ESU] had obtained three specimens in Woods County Oklahoma, 3/4 of a mile south of the Kansas line). None of the specimens the paper was based on, exist today.
1950 Smith, Hobart M. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of Kansas. University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publication (2):336
The first modern herpetology of Kansas. Includes locality dot maps within individual species accounts. Reports 96 species from Kansas (table and text say 97 on p. 10) and 13 "probable but unverified" species and subspecies.
1951 Brumwell, Malcolm J. An ecological survey of the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation American Midland Naturalist 45(1):187-231
Published posthumously. Lieutenant Brumwell died December 14, 1941, as a result of injuries incurred during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This paper is a condensed version of his thesis for the Master's degree.
1953 Schmidt, Karl P. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.
Schmidt's first edition of his standardized checklist to North American amphibians and reptiles. Includes several specific references to Kansas in the range descriptions.
1953 Cagle, Fred R. Two new subspecies of Graptemys pseudogeographica. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (546):17
1956 Smith, Hobart M. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of Kansas. Second edition. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Miscellaneous Publication (9):1-356
Hobart M. Smith's updated second edition of his first (1950) modern herpetology of Kansas. Includes locality dot maps within individual species accounts. Reports 96 species from Kansas (table says 97 on p. 10; text says 98 on p. 10) and 11 "probable but unverified" species and subspecies. The second edition has updated taxonomy, added Plestiodon laticeps, and removed Eurycea tynerensis.
1956 Clarke, Robert F. Turtles in Kansas. Kansas School Naturalist 2(4):1-15
1956 Clarke, Robert F. Identification of Kansas turtles. Kansas School Naturalist 2(4):1-3
1967 Choate, Jerry R. Wildlife in the Wakarusa Watershed of Northeastern Kansas. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence. 46pp.
1967 Gier, Herschel T. Vertebrates of the Flint Hills. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 70(1):51-59
1974 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Public Education Series (1):283 pp
Joseph T. Collins first Kansas herpetology. <Need to get species total and principal differences with previous 'version' (= Smith 1956)>
1975 Capron, Marty B. A trip through the Kansas Flint Hills. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (8):4-5
1976 Rundquist, Eric M. Field checklist (of) amphibians and reptiles of Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society, Lawrence. pp.
1976 Perry, Jan. Field trip to southeast Kansas planned. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (12):1
1976 Grow, David. The KHS goes to Chetopa. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (13):2-3
Spring field trip (22 May 1976) along the Neosho River.
1978 Kern, Anita, Leslie Rice, and Michelle Warner. The turtles of Sumner County, Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (27):10-11
1979 Preston, Robert E. Late Pleistocene cold-blooded vertebrate faunas from the mid-continental United States, I. Reptilia: Testudines, Crocodilia. University of Michigan Museum of Palenontology, Papers on Paleontology. (19):1-53.
1981 Collins, Joseph T. New records of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles in Kansas for 1980. Technical Publication of the State Biological Survery of Kansas 10():7-19
1982 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas. 2nd edition. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Public Education Series (8):
Joseph T. Collins second Kansas herpetology. <Need to get species total and principal differences with previous 'version' (= Collins 1974)>
1983 Trott, Gene. Chikaskia River wildlife study. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (52):3-4
1984 Brown, Kenneth L. Pomona: A plains village variant in eastern Kansas and western Missouri. Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 519pp.
1984 Heinrich, Mark L. Herpetofauna of the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area in the Flint Hills region of Kansas with respect to habitat selection. Thesis. Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. 57pp.
1984 Secor, Stephen M. and Charles C. Carpenter. Distribution maps of Oklahoma reptiles. Oklahoma Herpetological Society Special Publication (3):1-57
1984 Collins, Joseph T. New records of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles in Kansas for 1983. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (56):15-26
Invalidated the specimens of Thamnophis sirtalis from Hamilton County (reidentified as T. cyrtopsis; KU 2088) and Wallace County mapped in Collins, 1982.
1984 Collins, Joseph T. New records of fishes, amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1984. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (58):14-20
1985 Lynch, John D. Annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Science 13():33-57
1986 Capron, Marty B. Winter activity noted in southern Kansas herps. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (64):15-16
1986 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1986. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (66):9-16
1987 Capron, Marty B. Selected observations on south-central Kansas turtles Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (67):13-15
1987 Black, Jeffrey H., Jimmie Pigg, and Richard L. Lardie. Distribution records of Graptemys. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 23(2):65-68
1988 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1987. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (71):13-19
1988 Busby, William H. The Kansas Natural Heritage Program: Taking stock of Kansas' natural heritage. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (71):9-12
1989 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1989. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (78):16-21
1990 Collins, Joseph T. Maximum size records for Kansas amphibians and reptiles. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (81):13-17
1991 Conant, Roger and Joseph T. Collins. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. pp.
1991 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1990. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (83):7-13
1991 Voorhees, William, J. Schnell, and David Edds. Bait preferences of semiaquatic turtles in southeast Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (85):14-13
1991 Edds, David R., Paul A. Shipman and Linn E. Shipman. Geographic distribution: Graptemys pseudogeographica ouachitensis. Herpetological Review 22():134
1992 Edds, David R. Population status and incidence of anatomical abnormalities in semiaquatic turtles of the Walnut and lower Arkansas river basins. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt. 58pp.
1992 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1991. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (87):12-17
1992 Taggart, Travis W. KHS field trips. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (91):3
1992 Taggart, Travis W. Graptemys pseudogeographica. Geographic distribution. Herpetological Review 23():88
1993 Collins, Joseph T. and Suzanne L. Collins. Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas. Third Edition. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Lawrence. 397pp.
Joseph T. Collins third Kansas herpetology. <Need to get species total and principal differences with previous 'version' (= Collins 1982)>
1993 Kirkpatrick, D. Map turtles of the United States. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (November-December):6-17
1993 Vogt, Richard C. Systematics of the False Map Turtles (Graptemys pseudogeographica complex: Reptilia, Testudines, Emydidae) Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 62(1):1-46
Kansas specimens used in this analysis. Taxonomic designations as listed: 
Graptemys ouachitensis ouachitensis: Cowley Co., Winfield, USNM 88800. Geary Co., Republican River, USNM 261. Montgomery Co., Verdigris River, KU 3297-3299. Woodson Co., 2 mi E of Neosho Falls, KU 48251-48257; Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica: Leavenworth Co., Ft. Leavenworth, KU 21532; Graptemys p. pseudogeographica x p. kohni: Douglas Co., 5 mi NW LeCompton, Kansas River, KU 40115; 1 mi N, 11 12 mi W Lake View, KU 52290. Geary Co., Republican River, USNM 7610; ANSP 260; Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni: Coffey Co., Neosho River, KU 3287-3288. Osage Co., Lang Creek, KU 3164. Wilson Co., 1 mi S Altoona, Verdigris River, KU 3257, 46746.
1994 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1993. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (97):15-19
1994 McCoy, Clarence J., Jr. and Richard C. Vogt. Graptemys. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (584):1-3
1994 Fuselier, Linda, and David Edds. Habitat partitioning among three sympatric species of map turtles, genus Graptemys. Journal of Herpetology 28(2):154-158
1994 Dloogatch , Michael A. (Editor) Herpetology 1994 Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 29(12):282-283
Not on the paper by Fuselier and Edds (1994) in Journal of Herpetology on Kansas map turtles.
1995 Anderson, Lewis, Mark Shaw, Jeff Blodig, and Tom Walker. Report to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks: Herps encountered during REmap project, summer 1994. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (99):10-17
1995 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1994. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (100):24-47
1995 Vogt, Richard C. Graptemys ouachitensis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (603):1-4
1995 Vogt, Richard C. Graptemys pseudogeographica. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (604):1-6
1996 Rundquist, Eric M. Results of the eighth annual KHS herp counts Held 1 April-31 May 1996. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (104):6-17
1996 Rakestraw, J. Spring herp counts: A Kansas tradition. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (March-April):75-80
1997 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1996. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (107):14-16
1998 Conant, Roger and Joseph T. Collins. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. 3rd ed, expanded. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. pp.
1998 Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. A Key to Amphibians & Reptiles of the Continental United States and Canada. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 131pp.
1998 Gamble, Jerre. Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hartford, Kansas. 91pp.
1998 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1997. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (111):12-14
1998 Rundquist, Eric M. Results of the tenth annual KHS herp counts for 1998, held 1 April-31 May. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (112):11-18
1999 Rundquist, Eric M. Kansas Herpetological Society herp counts: A 10 year summary and evaluation. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (115):42962
1999 Collins, Joseph T. New records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas for 1998. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (116):14-15
2000 Van Doren, Mark D. and Curtis J. Schmidt. A herpetological survey of the Fort Larned National Historic Site, Pawnee County, Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (120):8-11
2002 Kingsbury, Bruce and Joanna Gibson. Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Midwest. Publication of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, Address not given. 152pp.
2002 Riedle, J. Daren and A. Hynek. Amphibian and reptile inventory of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant, Labette County, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (2):18-20
2003 Fogell, Daniel D. A herpetofaunal inventory of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Homestead National Monument of America, and Pipestone National Monument within the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network. National Park Service, Washington, D.C.. 59pp.
This is the version the author submitted to the NPS. Their final publication was modified.
2003 Suleiman, G. Fort Riley herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (5):11-12
2003 Suleiman, Gibran. Fort Riley herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):9
2004 Delisle, Jennifer M. and William H. Busby. Biological inventory for vertebrates at Fort Larned National Historic Site of the southern plains network. Natural Heritage Inventory, Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence. 61pp.
2006 Taggart, Travis W. Distribution and status of Kansas herpetofauna in need of information. State Wildlife Grant T7. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt. vii + 106pp.
2006 Casley, Shawn W. and Greg Sievert. Geographic Distribution: Graptemys ouachitensis ouachitensis Herpetological Review 37(4):491
2008 Smith, Ashley D. Intraspecific Phylogeography of Graptemys ouachitensis. Thesis. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 31pp.
2010 Collins, Joseph T., Suzanne L. Collins, and Travis W. Taggart. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles of Kansas Eagle Mountain Publishing., Provo, Utah. 400pp.
Joseph T. Collins fourth Kansas herpetology. <Need to get species total and principal differences with previous 'version' (= Collins 1993)>
2010 Murrow, Daniel G. Kansas Herpetological Society spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (33):2-3
2010 Krull, Dan. Geographic Distribution: Graptemys pseudogeographica (False Map Turtle). Journal of Kansas Herpetology (33):6
County record, Johnson County, Kansas.
2011 Taggart, Travis W. Kansas Herpetological Society 2011 spring field trip to be held in Chautauqua County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (37):5-7
2011 Taggart, Travis W. Results of the KHS Spring Field Trip to Chautauqua County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (38):2-4
2011 Houck, Mike. Fort Riley Herpetofaunal Survey for 2011. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (39):9
2012 Rohweder, Megan R. Spatial conservation prioritization of Kansas for terrestrial vertebrates. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 151pp.
2012 Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada: Second Edition, Revised and Updated. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 152pp.
2013 Bass, Neil. The Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project: For the river, for you, and for herps. Collinsorum 2(1/2):10-11
2013 Taggart, Travis W. KHS 2012 Spring Field Trip to Bourbon County State Lake. Collinsorum 2(3/4):3
2013 Taggart, Travis W. KHS 2013 Spring Field Trip to Schermerhorn Park, Cherokee County. Collinsorum 2(3/4):4
2013 Mardis, Dexter and Kevin Scott. 2013 Kansas Herpetofaunal Counts. Collinsorum 2(3/4):7
2014 Taggart, Travis W. Results of the 2014 KHS Fall Field Trip to Woodson County. Collinsorum 3(2-4):12
2015 Bass, Neil. Herpetological (Frog and Turtle) Inventories along the Missouri River in Kansas. Collinsorum 4(1):5-9
2015 Taggart, Travis W. Summer Field Trip In The Harvey County Sandhills. Collinsorum 4(3):3
2016 Lindeman, Peter V. The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas: Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 488pp.
2016 Powell, Robert, Roger Conant, and Joseph T. Collins. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. 494pp.
2016 Taggart, Travis W. Results of the KHS Summer field trip to Caney River, Chautauqua County, Kansas. Collinsorum 5(2-3):4-5
2017 Taggart, Travis W. and J. Daren Riedle. A Pocket Guide to Kansas Amphibians, Turtles and Lizards. Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, Kansas. 69pp.
2017 Crother, Brian I. (editor) Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. Eighth edition. Herpetological Circulars (43):1-102
2017 Praschag, Peter, Flora Ihlow, Morris Flecks, Melita Vamberger, and Uwe Fritz. Diversity of North American map and sawback turtles (Testudines: Emydidae: Graptemys). Zoologica Scripta 46():675-682
2018 Thomson, Robert C., Phillip Q. Spinks, and H. Bradley Shaffer. Molecular phylogeny and divergence of the map turtles (Emydidae: Graptemys) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121(April):61-70
2019 Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada. Third Edition. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 192pp.
2019 Hollender, Ethan C. Freshwater turtle community composition in mined land strip pit lakes and the effects of learned trap avoidance on capture rates of Sternotherus odoratus and Trachemys scripta. Thesis. Missouri State University, Springfield. 61pp.
2020 Mahr, Michael S. Distributions and statuses of map turtles (Graptemys sp.) in Kansas. Thesis. Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.. 131pp.
2020 Daniel, Richard E. and Brian S. Edmond. Atlas of Missouri Amphibians and Reptiles for 2019. Privately printed, Columbia, Missouri. 86pp.
2020 Riedle, J. Daren. Revisiting Kansas Herpetological Society field trip and Herp Count data: Distributional patterns and trend data of Kansas amphibians and reptiles. Collinsorum 9(1):7-16
2021 Rhodin, Anders G. J., John B. Iverson, Roger Bour, Uwe Fritz, Arthur Georges, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Peter Paul van Dijk. Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: First checklist and review of extinct pleistocene and holocene chelonians. Chelonian Research Monographs (8):1-472
2021 Hollender, Ethan C. and Day B. Ligon. Freshwater turtle community composition in strip pit lakes on mined lands. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16(1):183–193
2021 Powell, Alexis F. L. A. Geographic Distribution: Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica: USA: Missouri: Platte Co. Herpetological Review 52(3):573
Mentions the nearest record to the west in Wyandotte County, Kansas.
2021 Powell, Alexis F. L. A., Michael S. Mahr, Jennifer L. Buchanan, Justin J. Autz, and Greg Sievert. New county and drainage records of turtles in waterways of eastern Kansas, USA Herpetological Review 52(3):584–587
Report on 58 records of seven species of turtles in rivers ofeastern Kansas that constitute new county records, new drainagerecords in counties or the state, first county records with precisedate or locality information, first records for counties in ≥ 75 years,and that fill gaps in known distributions.
2021 Thomson, Robert C., Phillip Q. Spinks, and H. Bradley Shaffer. A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118(7):1-10
2022 Powell, Alexis F. L. A. and Greg Sievert. New distributional records of turtles in eastern Kansas and western Missouri, USA. Herpetological Review 53(2):265–271
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