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Habitat Changes and its Impacts on the Caspian Pond Turtle (Mauremys caspica) Population in the Golestan and Mazandaran Provinces of Iran

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  • Habitat Changes and its Impacts on the Caspian Pond Turtle (Mauremys caspica) Population in the Golestan and Mazandaran Provinces of Iran

  • The Mauremys caspica (Gmelin 1774) belongs to the Geoemydidae is a medium-sized freshwater turtle that is widespread throughout the Middle East [1]

  • 118 specimens were collected from 23 stations (Figure 1) including lakes, rivers, ponds, pools and fish farms in Golestan (72 specimens) and Mazandaran (46 specimens) provinces during 20112012

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Habitat Changes and its Impacts on the Caspian Pond Turtle (Mauremys caspica) Population in the Golestan and Mazandaran Provinces of Iran. Reza Yadollahvand1* and Haji Gholi Kami2 1Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Nour, Iran 2Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran In Iran the Caspian Pond Turtle, is widely distributed in the north, west and south-west of country [2,3,4].

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