Population Structure of the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii, on the Western Edge of its Distribution

J. Daren Riedle; Paul A. Shipman; Stanley F. Fox; Joseph C. Hackler; David M. Leslie Jr.

doi:10.2744/CCB-0646.1

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J. Daren Riedle,^1,2 Paul A. Shipman,^1,3 Stanley F. Fox,⁴ Joseph C. Hackler,¹ David M. Leslie Jr.⁵

¹Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 USA [ ] les_tortues@hotmail.com
²Present Address: Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas 79016 USA [ ] macrochelys@hotmail.com
³Present Address: Department of Biological Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623 USA [ ] passbi@rit.edu
⁴Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 USA [ ] foxstan@okstate.edu
⁵United States Geological Survey, Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 USA [ ] cleslie@usgs.gov

Abstract

A mark-recapture project on Macrochelys temminckii was conducted between 1997 and 2000 at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Muskogee and Sequoyah counties, in eastern Oklahoma. Turtles were captured in all streams and exhibited equal sex ratios, marked sexual-size dimorphism, and population densities between 28 and 34 animals per km stretch of stream. There was evidence of past population perturbations, with very few large adults captured, and a cohort of subadults highly underrepresented.

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J. Daren Riedle, Paul A. Shipman, Stanley F. Fox, Joseph C. Hackler, and David M. Leslie Jr. "Population Structure of the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii, on the Western Edge of its Distribution," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 7(1), 100-104, (1 August 2008). https://doi.org/10.2744/CCB-0646.1

Received: 23 November 2005; Accepted: 1 September 2007; Published: 1 August 2008

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