John L. Carr

Department of Biology
The University of Louisiana at Monroe
Monroe, LA 71209-0520
USA
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PUBLICATIONS
Carr, J.L. 2012. Caracteres Morfológicos para Estudios de Taxonomía y Sistemática de Tortugas, pp. 103-113. In: Biología y Conservación de las Tortugas Continentales de Colombia, V. Páez, M. A. Morales-Betancourt, C. A. Lasso, O.V. Castaño-Mora y B. Bock (Eds.). Serie Editorial: Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH). Bogotá, Colombia. PDF
Carr, J.L., A. Giraldo, and M.F. Garcés-Restrepo. 2012. Rhinoclemmys nasuta (Boulenger 1902), pp. 315-322. In: Biología y Conservación de las Tortugas Continentales de Colombia, V. Páez, M. A. Morales-Betancourt, C. A. Lasso, O.V. Castaño-Mora y B. Bock (Eds.). Serie Editorial: Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH). Bogotá, Colombia. PDF
Echeverri-García, L.P., J.L. Carr, M.F. Garcés-Restrepo, C.A. Galvis Rizo, and A. Giraldo. 2012. Rhinoclemmys melanosterna (Gray, 1861), pp. 308-314. In: Biología y Conservación de las Tortugas Continentales de Colombia, V. Páez, M. A. Morales-Betancourt, C. A. Lasso, O.V. Castaño-Mora y B. Bock (Eds.). Serie Editorial: Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH). Bogotá, Colombia.  PDF
Forero-Medina, G., J.B. Iverson, J.L. Carr, O.V. Castaño-Mora, C.A. Galvis-Rizo, and L.E. Rentería-Moreno. 2012. Kinosternon dunni (Schmidt 1947), pp. 327-331. In: Biología y Conservación de las Tortugas Continentales de Colombia, V. Páez, M. A. Morales-Betancourt, C. A. Lasso, O.V. Castaño-Mora y B. Bock (Eds.). Serie Editorial: Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH). Bogotá, Colombia.  PDF
Giraldo, A., J.L. Carr, and M.F. Garcés-Restrepo. 2012. Rhinoclemmys annulata (Gray 1860), pp. 300-304. In: Biología y Conservación de las Tortugas Continentales de Colombia, V. Páez, M. A. Morales-Betancourt, C. A. Lasso, O.V. Castaño-Mora y B. Bock (Eds.). Serie Editorial: Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH). Bogotá, Colombia. PDF
Giraldo, A., M.F. Garcés-Restrepo, and J.L. Carr. 2012. Kinosternon leucostomum (Duméril y Bibron en Duméril y Duméril 1851), pp. 332-339. In: Biología y Conservación de las Tortugas Continentales de Colombia, V. Páez, M. A. Morales-Betancourt, C. A. Lasso, O.V. Castaño-Mora y B. Bock (Eds.). Serie Editorial: Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH). Bogotá, Colombia.  PDF
Almendáriz C., A. and  J.L. Carr. 2012. Lista actualizada de los anfibios y reptiles registrados en los remanentes de bosque de la Cordillera de la Costa y áreas adyacentes del suroeste del Ecuador. Revista Politécnica 30(3):184-194. PDF
Giraldo, A., M.F. Garcés, J.L Carr, and J. Loaiza. 2012. Tamaño y estructura poblacional de la tortuga sabaletera (Rhinoclemmys nasuta, Testudines: Geoemydidae) en un ambiente insular del Pacífico colombiano. Caldasia 34(1):109-125.  PDF
Steen, D. A., Gibbs, J. P., Buhlmann, K. A., Carr, J. L., Compton, B. W., Congdon, J., Doody, J. S., Godwin, J. C., Holcomb, K. L., Jackson, D. R., Janzen, F. J., Johnson, G., Jones, M. T., Lamer, J. T., Langen, T. A., Plummer, M. V., Rowe, J. W., Saumure, R. A., Tucker, J. K., and Wilson, D. S. 2012. Terrestrial habitat requirements of nesting freshwater turtles. Biological Conservation 150:121-128.  LINK
Holcomb, S.R. and J.L. Carr. 2011. Hatchling emergence from naturally incubated Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) nests in northern Louisiana. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 10(2):222-227.  PDF
Shively, S., J. Brown, and J.L. Carr. 2011. Sternotherus carinatus (Razor-backed Musk Turtle). Predation. Herpetological Review 42(3):423.
Holcomb, S.R. and J.L Carr. 2011. Infestation of a naturally incubated nest of the Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) by the phorid fly Megaselia scalaris. Southwestern Naturalist 56(3):427-429.  PDF
Carr, J.L., S.R. Holcomb, and M.J. Ray. 2011. Basking in the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii (Testudines: Chelydridae). Reptiles and Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History 18(1):2-5.  PDF
Carr, J.L., M.F. Garcés, A. Quintero-Angel, and A. Giraldo. 2010. Rhinoclemmys nasuta (Chocoan River Turtle).  Diet and feeding behavior. Herpetological Review 41(3):347-348.  PDF
Quintero-Angel, A. and J.L. Carr. 2010. Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma (Orange-tailed Gecko).  Predation. Herpetological Review 41(1):80.  PDF
Patton, G.M., M.A. Messinger and J.L. Carr. 2009. Terrapene carolina triunguis (Three-toed Box Turtle), Anomalous scutation. Herpetological Review 40(4):437.  PDF
Carr, J.L. and Giraldo, A. 2009. Rhinoclemmys nasuta (Boulenger 1902) – large-nosed wood turtle, Chocoan river turtle. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 034.1-034.6, doi:10.3854/crm.5.034.nasuta.v1.2009  PDF
Rhodin, A.G.J. and J.L. Carr. 2009. A quarter millenium [sic] of uses and misuses of the turtle name Testudo scabra: identification of the type specimens of T. scabra Linnaeus 1758 (= Rhinoclemmys punctularia) and T. scripta Thunberg in Schoepff 1792 (= Trachemys scripta scripta). Zootaxa (2226):1-18.  PDF
Carr, J.L. 2008. Terrestrial foraging by two species of semiaquatic turtles (Testudines: Emydidae). Southeastern Naturalist 7(4):748-752.  PDF
Carr, J.L., M.A. Messinger and G.M. Patton. 2008. Nesting behavior in Three-toed Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina triunguis) following oxytocin-induced oviposition. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 7(1):124-128.  PDF
Rueda-Almonacid, J.V., J.L. Carr, R.A. Mittermeier, J.V. Rodríguez-Mahecha, R.B. Mast, R.C. Vogt, A.G.J. Rhodin, J. de la Ossa-Velásquez, J.N. Rueda & C.G. Mittermeier. 2007. Las Tortugas y los Cocodrilianos de los Países Andinos del Trópico. Serie de Guías de Campo No. 6. Consevación Internacional. Editorial Panamericana, Formas e Impresos. Bogotá, Colombia. 538 pp. Order Form
Greenbaum, E. and J.L. Carr. 2005. The Herpetofauna of Upper Niger National Park, Guinea, West Africa.
Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, No. 37:1-21.  PDF
Greenbaum, E., J.L. Carr and A. Almendáriz. 2004. Taxonomic status of Tantilla equatoriana Wilson and Mena 1980 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Southwestern Naturalist 49(4):457-464.  PDF
Ewert, M.A., J.S. Doody and J.L. Carr. 2004. Graptemys ouachitensis sabinensis (Sabine Map Turtle).
Reproduction. Herpetological Review 35(4):382-383. PDF
Patton, G.A., M.A. Messinger and J.L. Carr. 2004. Musk odor production in hatchling Three-toed Box Turtles
(Terrapene carolina triunguis). Transactions of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences 65:22-25. PDF
Greenbaum, E., M.C. Baldé and J.L. Carr. 2003. Geographic distribution: Dendroaspis polylepis (Black Mamba). Herpetological Review 34:168. PDF
Greenbaum, E.B. and J.L. Carr. 2002. Staging criteria for embryos of the Spiny Softshell Turtle, Apalone spinifera (Testudines: Trionychidae). Journal of Morphology 254:272-291. PDF
Carr, J.L. and M.A. Messinger. 2002. Graptemys gibbonsi (Pascagoula Map Turtle). Predation. Herpetological Review 33(3):200-201. PDF
Greenbaum, E. and J.L. Carr. 2001. Sexual differentiation in the Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera), a species with genetic sex determination. Journal of Experimental Zoology 290:190-200. PDF
Phillips, C.A., W.W. Dimmick, and J.L. Carr. 1996. Conservation genetics of the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Conservation Biology 10:397-405. PDF
Hannah, L., J.L. Carr, and A. Lankerani. 1995. Human disturbance and natural habitat: A biome level analysis of a global data set. Biodiversity and Conservation 4:128-155.
Nabhan, G.P. and J.L. Carr, eds. 1994. Ironwood: An Ecological and Cultural Keystone of the Sonoran Desert. Conservation International, Occasional Papers in Conservation Biology 1: 92 pp.  
Hannah, L., D. Lohse, C. Hutchinson, J.L. Carr, and A. Lankerani. 1994. A preliminary inventory of human disturbance of world ecosystems. Ambio 23:246-250.
Mittermeier, R.A. and J.L. Carr. 1994. Conservation of reptiles and amphibians: a global perspective. Pp. 27-35. In: Captive Management and Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles, J.B. Murphy, K. Adler, and J.T. Collins, eds. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca, NY. Contributions to Herpetology, Vol. 11.  LINK
Mittermeier, R.A. and J.L. Carr. 1993. Conservation of amphibians and reptiles. Pp. 207-208. In: Desert Tortoise Council Proceedings of 1992 Symposium, K.R. Beaman (ed.). Palm Desert, CA: Desert Tortoise Council.
Carr, J.L. 1993. Geographic distribution: Kinosternon oaxacae (Oaxaca Mud Turtle). Herpetological Review
24(3):108. PDF
Almendáriz, A. and J.L. Carr. 1992. Amphibians and reptiles. Pp. 128-132. In: Status of Forest Remnants in the Cordillera de la Costa and Adjacent Areas of Southwestern Ecuador, T.A. Parker III and J.L. Carr (eds). Washington, DC: Conservation International, RAP Working Papers 2.
Parker, T.A., III and J.L. Carr (eds.). 1992. Status of Forest Remnants in the Cordillera de la Costa and Adjacent Areas of Southwestern Ecuador. Conservation International, RAP Working Papers 2: 172 pp. LINK 
Mittermeier, R.A., J.L. Carr, I.R. Swingland, T.B. Werner, and R.B. Mast. 1992. Conservation of amphibians and reptiles. Pp. 59-80. In: Herpetology: Contemporary Research on the Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, K. Adler, ed. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, OH. Contributions to Herpetology, Vol. 9.
Dyer, W.G. and J.L. Carr. 1990. Some ascaridid, spirurid and rhabditid nematodes of the Neotropical turtle genus Rhinoclemmys in Mexico and South America. Journal of Parasitology 76:259-262. PDF
Carr, J.L. and A. Almendáriz. 1990[1989]. Conocimiento sobre la distribución geográfica de los quelonios del Ecuador occidental. Politecnica 14(3)(Serie Biol. 2): 75-103. PDF  Translation
Dyer, W.G. and J.L. Carr. 1990. Some digeneans of the Neotropical turtle genus Rhinoclemmys in Mexico and South America. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 57(1):12-14. PDF
Carr, J.L. 1989. Seven accounts for Rhinoclemmys spp. In: Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World, F.W. King and R.L. Burke, eds. Association of Systematics Collections, Washington, DC. pp. 47-49.
Mast, R.B. and J.L. Carr. 1989. Carapacial scute variation in Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys kempi) hatchlings and juveniles. In: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Biology, Conservation and Management, C.W. Caillouet, Jr. and A. Landry, Jr., eds. TAMU SG 89 105, pp. 202-219. PDF
Carr, J.L. and R.B. Mast. 1988. Natural history observations of Kinosternon herrerai (Testudines: Kinosternidae). Trianea 1:87-97. PDF
Carr, J.L. and J.W. Bickham. 1986. Phylogenetic implications of karyotypic variation in the Batagurinae (Testudines: Emydidae). Genetica 70(2):89-106. PDF
Mast, R.B. and J.L. Carr. 1986. Trachemys scripta cataspila (Huastecan Slider). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 17(1):25. PDF
Mast, R.B. and J.L. Carr. 1985. Macrochelid mites in association with Kemp's Ridley hatchlings. Marine Turtle Newsletter No. 33:11-12.
Bickham, J.W. and J.L. Carr. 1983. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the higher categories of cryptodiran turtles based on a cladistic analysis of chromosomal data. Copeia 1983(4):918-932. PDF
Houseal, T.W. and J.L. Carr. 1983. Notes on the reproduction of Kinosternon subrubrum (Reptilia: Testudines) in East Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 28(2):237-239.
Carr, J.L. and J.W. Bickham. 1981. Sex chromosomes of the Asian Black Pond Turtle, Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Testudines: Emydidae). Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 31(3):178-183.
Carr, J.L., J.W. Bickham and R.H. Dean. 1981. The karyotype and chromosomal banding patterns of the Central American River Turtle (Dermatemys mawii). Herpetologica 37(2):92-95. PDF
Carr, J.L. and T.W. Houseal. 1981. Post-hibernation behavior in Terrapene carolina triunguis (Emydidae). Southwestern Naturalist 26(2):199-200.

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