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. Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle
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UF 166146, adult male skeleton from Santa Fe River and State Road 235, Alachua County, Florida (
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, datum WGS84, elev.
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), found dead, apparently from gunshot wounds, in very low water in 2003 by Jason R. Bourque (see
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,
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). (Suwannee lineage;
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UF 22267, partial skeleton from Santa Fe River, near Town of Santa Fe, Alachua County, Florida, on
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by George R. Zug; UF 12694, partial skeleton from Fletcher Spring, Lafayette County, Florida (
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, elev.
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), on
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by B. Sites, D. Desautels, and D. Young.
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is distinguished by the following: carapacial caudal notch very wide and lunate (
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), usually comprising the pygal and peripheral
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(shared with
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); pygal sutured medially (composed of two bones) often with no serrations; Peripheral 11 with 12 serrations; distal rib end of costal 1 enters posterior third of peripheral 3; pleural scute
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with broad overlap onto the nuchal; dermal scale on the frontals very wide; processus trochlearis oticum with developed proximal and distal protuberances; squamosal contacts opisthotic anteriorly when viewed in dorsal aspect; mandible broad with expanded triturating surfaces and developed labial rugosity just anterior to the coronoid; posterior projection of the squamosal acutely angled in lateral aspect, dorsally straight or downwardly directed, and posteriorly extensive past the plane of the quadrate (
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).
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Polygons showing the principal component scores (and associated percent of variability explained by each component) for carapace morphometric measurements (caudal notch width, caudal notch area, caudal notch depth) from 104 alligator snapping turtles by lineage (Suwannee n=28, central n=15, and western n=61).
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Most carapaces of
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exhibited a medially sutured pygal. This feature is significant when considering caudal notch width and is likely at least part of the reason this species possesses the widest caudal notch amongst congeners. The extra suture may allow the caudal notch to expand as the turtle grows larger. This is in contrast to
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, which possesses a single unsutured pygal bone and consequently the narrowest caudal notch of extant
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<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FDADFA6890C5C595" box="[526,669,1503,1527]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">Macrochelys</emphasis>
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. Peripheral 11 is usually doubly serrated; i.e., the serrations that are typically contained on the pygal bone in the western and central species have migrated onto the 11th peripheral set in
<taxonomicName id="4C7E4D33FFC6FFD4FF17F99C9336C620" box="[180,366,1579,1602]" class="Reptilia" family="Chelydridae" genus="Macrochelys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Testudines" pageId="10" pageNumber="151" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="suwanniensis">
<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FF17F99C9336C620" box="[180,366,1579,1602]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">M. suwanniensis</emphasis>
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C364653BFFC6FFD4FF64F9F9960AC605" box="[199,1106,1614,1639]" pageId="10" pageNumber="151" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BC136B0FFC6FFD4FF64F9F9960AC605" blockId="10.[151,1436,1359,1747]" box="[199,1106,1614,1639]" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">
<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FF64F9F99338C605" bold="true" box="[199,352,1614,1639]" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">Distribution.</emphasis>
Restricted to the Suwannee River drainage in Florida and
<collectingCountry id="F3697620FFC6FFD4FC53F9F99615C605" box="[1008,1101,1614,1639]" name="Georgia" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">Georgia</collectingCountry>
.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C364653BFFC6FFD4FF64F9C5902AC6B1" pageId="10" pageNumber="151" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BC136B0FFC6FFD4FF64F9C59604C6CC" blockId="10.[151,1436,1359,1747]" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">
<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FF64F9C59316C6E9" bold="true" box="[199,334,1650,1675]" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">Etymology.</emphasis>
Specific epithet refers to combination of the new Latin
<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FC4FF9C49600C6E8" box="[1004,1112,1651,1674]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">suwanni</emphasis>
(referring to the Suwannee River) and the Latin
<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FE23F920939EC6CC" box="[384,454,1687,1710]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">ensis</emphasis>
(belongs to the) to form the composite noun
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<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FC63F920960DC6CC" box="[960,1109,1687,1710]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">suwanniensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC136B0FFC6FFD4FF64F90D902AC6B1" blockId="10.[151,1436,1359,1747]" box="[199,626,1722,1747]" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">
<emphasis id="B90AEAA2FFC6FFD4FF64F90D939EC6B1" bold="true" box="[199,454,1722,1747]" pageId="10" pageNumber="151">Specimens examined.</emphasis>
See Appendix.
</paragraph>
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