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The Alabama red-bellied cooter (Pseudemys alabamensis) or Alabama red-bellied turtle, is native to Alabama. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It belongs to the turtle family Emydidae , the pond turtles. It is the official reptile of the state of Alabama.
black-knobbed map turtle northern black-knobbed sawback: Emydidae: Moderate Graptemys ouachitensis: Ouachita map turtle: Emydidae: Lowest Graptemys pulchra: Alabama map turtle: Emydidae: Moderate Malaclemys terrapin pileata: Mississippi diamondback terrapin: Emydidae: Highest Pseudemys alabamensis: Alabama red-bellied cooter (Designated as ...
Red-bellied turtle can refer to several turtle species: Pseudemys alabamensis, the Alabama red-bellied turtle; Pseudemys nelsoni, the Florida red-bellied turtle; Pseudemys rubriventris, the Northern red-bellied turtle; Red-bellied short-necked turtle, a species of turtle in the family Chelidae found in tropical Australia and Papua New Guinea
WESTBOROUGH — Forty years ago, the estimated population for the northern red-bellied cooter, a freshwater turtle that measures 10 to 12 inches long, was estimated to be about 200.Today, thanks ...
Pseudemys is a genus of large, herbivorous, freshwater turtles of the eastern United States and adjacent northeast Mexico. They are often referred to as cooters, which stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by enslaved people from Africa.
The form just asks turtle-finders to answer a few simple questions, provide location information, and upload any photos that help document instances of sick or dead turtles.
A northern red-bellied cooter in Long Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts in July 2021. The red-bellied turtle has appeared on Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission lists of endangered amphibians and reptiles since 1978 (McCoy 1985). By 1985 the red-bellied turtle was known to exist in Pennsylvania only in isolated colonies in a few counties (McCoy ...
Two species are IUCN Endangered: the Alabama red-bellied turtle (Alabama) and the loggerhead sea turtle (South Carolina, also the state saltwater reptile of Florida). [3] [15] However, in the United States, only the Alabama red-bellied turtle is legally an endangered species. [132]