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1960
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A New Subspecies of Slider Turtle
(Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, México
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 Ciénegas, 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 more than any other person to our present knowledge of the herpetofauna of México.
Pseudemys scripta taylori new subspecies
(Pls. 9-12, Figures 1 & 2)
Holotype.—Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist., No. 46952, adult female, alcoholic; 16 km. S Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, México; 6 September 1958; original number 1694 John M. Legler.