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Kansas is home to 15 species of turtles. [1] Family Chelydridae – snapping turtles Alligator snapping turtle; Common snapping turtle; Family Kinosternidae – mud and musk turtles Common musk turtle (stinkpot) Yellow mud turtle; Family Emydidae – basking and box turtles Painted turtle; Common map turtle; Ouachita map turtle; False map ...
3 Description. 4 Natural ... (Graptemys ouachitensis) is a species of turtle belonging to ... Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas ...
The ornate box turtle is a relatively small turtle, measuring just 4-6″ (10-15 cm) when full-grown. Males and females generally look alike but males are often smaller; there is color variation with yellow lines from the center of the shell to the edges through gray, red-brown, or black coloration. [7]
A rare species of turtle which is extinct in the wild has hatched at a zoo in Kansas. The McCord’s box turtle was born at Sedgwick County Zoo, staff announced last Friday (13 October). “This ...
The list of mammals of Kansas comprises 100 mammals recorded in the U.S. state of Kansas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It includes both native and introduced species which can have a negative impact on the ecosystem but does not include domesticated animals. [ 3 ]
The “golden wings” moth has wings that can reach about 0.6 inches in size, Matson wrote. Photos show the new species. Seen from above, the moth’s wings are a creamy gold coloring with brown ...
A woman was busted for trying to sneak 29 protected turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada via kayak. ... Police that two other people, Ng’s husband and another person, began to paddle a ...
The widest distributed species is the common box turtle which is found in the United States (subspecies carolina, major, bauri, triunguis; south-central, eastern, and southeastern parts) and Mexico (subspecies yukatana and mexicana; Yucatán peninsula and northeastern parts). The western box turtle is endemic to the south-central and ...