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  2. Northern map turtle - Wikipedia

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    Northern map turtles inhabit an area from south Quebec and Ontario to northern Vermont where it lives in the St. Lawrence River drainage basin.Its range extends west through the Great Lakes and into southern Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, west of the Appalachians, south to Kansas and northwestern Georgia.

  3. Graptemys - Wikipedia

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    Graptemys is a genus of freshwater turtles containing 14 species, commonly known as map turtles. [5] Graptemys are small to medium-sized turtles that are significantly sexually dimorphic, with females in some species attaining as much as twice the length and ten times the mass as males.

  4. Eastern box turtle - Wikipedia

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    The eastern box turtle is the official state reptile of two U.S. states: North Carolina (which gives rise to the species and subspecies name carolina carolina) and Tennessee. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In Pennsylvania, the eastern box turtle made it through one house of the legislature, but failed to win final naming in 2009. [ 30 ]

  5. Eastern river cooter - Wikipedia

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    The eastern river cooter (Pseudemys concinna concinna) is a subspecies of turtle native to the eastern United States, with a smaller population in the midwest. It is found in freshwater habitats such as rivers, lakes, and ponds.

  6. North American box turtle - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina and Tennessee honor the eastern box turtle. [24] [25] [26] Missouri names the three-toed box turtle. [27] Kansas and Nebraska honor the ornate box turtle. [28] [29] In Pennsylvania, the eastern box turtle made it through one house of the legislature, but failed to win final naming in 2009. [30]

  7. Chicken turtle - Wikipedia

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    The eastern chicken turtle (D. r. reticularia ) is the turtle originally described by Latreille in 1801. It is the largest of the chicken turtles, with males measuring up to 16.5 cm (6.5 in) and females up to 26.0 cm (10.2 in). [ 18 ]

  8. Terrapene ornata - Wikipedia

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    Terrapene ornata is a species of North American box turtle sometimes referred to as the western box turtle or the ornate box turtle. It is one of two recognized species of box turtle in the United States, having two subspecies. The second recognized species of box turtle is the eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina.

  9. Three-toed box turtle - Wikipedia

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    The three-toed box turtle (Terrapene triunguis) is a species within the genus of hinge-shelled turtles commonly referred to as box turtles. This species is native to the south-central part of the United States and is the official reptile of the state of Missouri. [4] It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the eastern box turtle as T ...