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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 ...
[7] [18] Three species are Near Threatened: the diamondback terrapin (Maryland), the ornate box turtle (Kansas), and the common box turtle (Missouri with the three-toed subspecies, North Carolina and Tennessee with the eastern subspecies). [22] [26] [32] All the remaining state reptile species are Least Concern.
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 University Geological Survey of Kansas, Part IV. 4:370–385. pls. 79–84. Hay, O.P. 1905. A revision of the species of the family of fossil turtles called Toxochelyidae, with descriptions of two new species of Toxochelys and a new species of Porthochelys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21(10):177–185. Druckenmiller ...
The lifespan of a turtle is largely dependent on the species. As a general rule, tortoises live the longest, but turtles are also fairly long-lived compared to most domestic pets, assuming all ...
The Ouachita map turtle ... is a species of turtle belonging to the family ... Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota ...
One of the amazing turtle facts is that some turtle species are meat eaters, others omnivores, happily munching on a variety of meat, fish, and plants, while many types stick strictly to vegetation.