Comparative growth in the postnatal skull of the extant North American turtle Pseudemys texana (Testudinoidea: Emydidae)

The postnatal skull of the extant North

The postnatal skull of the extant North American turtle Pseudemys texana (Cryptodira: Emydidae), with comments on the study of discrete intraspecific variation

✍ Gabe S. Bever 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 1014 KB

## Abstract This study describes the postnatal morphology of the skull in the extant testudinoid turtle __Pseudemys texana__. The material basis of this study is drawn from a single population and therefore provides the opportunity to document cranial variation expressed at multiple levels of infer