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Life History And Demography Of The Common Mud Turtle, Kinosternon Subrubrum, In South Carolina, Nat B. Frazer, J. W. Gibbons, J. L. Greene
Life History And Demography Of The Common Mud Turtle, Kinosternon Subrubrum, In South Carolina, Nat B. Frazer, J. W. Gibbons, J. L. Greene
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This paper presents a life table for the common mud turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum, in a fluctuating aquatic habitat on the Upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina, USA, using data gathered in a 20-yr mark-recapture study. Data on survivorship and fecundity (clutch size, per capita clutch frequency) were assessed and compared to previously published life table statistics for the slider turtle, Trachemys scripta, in the same body of water and for the yellow mud turtle, K. flavescens, in Nebraska.
The annual survival rate for adult female Kinosternon (87.6%) is significantly higher than that of adult female Trachemys (77.4%). Similarly, male Kinosternon …