BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS OF NEOTROPICAL TURTLES OF THE GENUS RHINOCLEMMYS (EMYDIDAE, BATAGURINAE) Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Allozyme variation among 6 taxa of Rhinoclemmys was assessed by horizontal starch-gel electrophoresis. Relationships were assessed both phenetically and cladistically. Results were generally concordant. Rhinoclemmys funerea, R. areolata and R. punctularia appear to form a closely related assemblage and are best considered as an unresolved trichotomy. Rhinoclemmys rubida forms a distinct subcluster to the funerea-areolata-punctularia group and is distinguished by a number of autapomorphic alleles. Two subspecies of R. pulcherrima, R.p. manni and R.p. incisa, form a separate cluster from the other species and are cladistically united by 4 synapomorphies. -from Authors

published proceedings

  • HERPETOLOGICA

author list (cited authors)

  • SITES, J. W., GREENBAUM, I. F., & BICKHAM, J. W.

complete list of authors

  • SITES, JW||GREENBAUM, IF||BICKHAM, JW

publication date

  • January 1981