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The Plymouth red-bellied turtle often suns itself upon rocks in order to maintain its body temperature; however, if it is frightened while doing so, it will go back into the water. During the wintertime, this turtle hibernates in the mud at the bottoms of rivers.
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 .
Massasoit National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1983 to conserve the federally endangered Plymouth Red-bellied Turtle, as well as other wildlife and plant species. The Refuge encompasses 195 acres (0.79 km 2) in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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 ...
Northern red-bellied cooter: Pseudemys rubriventris ... Rare, found only in Plymouth County; listed as endangered: Eastern musk turtle: ... Eastern box turtle ...
Common map turtle: Adults are 4 to 10.7 inches (10 to 27 cm) in length and colored green, olive or brown with yellow markings and underside. Sternotherus odoratus: Common musk turtle: Adults are 3.25 to 5.37 inches (8.3 to 13.6 cm) in length and colored black or brown; often have algae covering the shell. Terrapene carolina carolina: Eastern ...
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
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