John M. Legler
Dr. John M. Legler. John is best known for four main turtle projects: his doctoral research with Terrapene ornata in Kansas, his research of turtles throughout Mexico and Central America, culminating in The life History of the Slider Turtle (1971) a
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Dr. John M. Legler. John is best known for four main turtle projects: his doctoral research with Terrapene ornata in Kansas, his research of turtles throughout Mexico and Central America, culminating in The life History of the Slider Turtle (1971) and The Turtles of Mexico (2013).Legler described new species of tortoises and freshwater turtles from both North and Central America and Australia: Gopherus flavomarginatus from Mexico, Kinosternon angustipons from Panama, Trachemys scripta taylori and Trionyx ater from Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico, a new genus of Australian Turtle - Rheodytes - as well as other species of Australian turtles. In addition he described a subspecies of snake, Geophis and a frog was named after him.
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