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Eastern river cooter mating habits are very similar to the red-eared slider. As with the other basking turtles, the males tend to be smaller than females. The male uses his long claws to flutter at the face of the much larger female. Often, the female ignores him.
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 genus Pseudemys includes several species of cooters and red-bellied turtles. Pseudemys concinna is the species known as the river cooter. The name "cooter" may have come from an African word "kuta" which means "turtle" in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves.
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 ...
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 ...
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
Pseudemys nelsoni – Florida red-bellied cooter; Pseudemys peninsularis – peninsula cooter; Pseudemys rubriventris – northern red-bellied cooter; Pseudemys texana – Texas river cooter; Trachemys Agassiz, 1857: Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995 – Maranhão slider; Trachemys callirostris (Gray, 1856) – Colombian slider
Northern red-bellied cooter Pseudemys rubriventris; Woodland box turtle Terrapene carolina carolina; Red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans (I) Yellow-bellied slider Trachemys scripta scripta; Cumberland slider Trachemys scripta troostii; Family: Dermochelyidae. Leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea; Family: Cheloniidae. Loggerhead ...