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Aquatic turtles may refer to: Red-eared slider---- Trachemys scripta elegans. Pond slider---- Trachemys scripta. Northern map turtle---- Graptemys geographica.
Red-eared slider turtles are threatening to invade the natural water bodies across northeast India, which are home to 21 out of 29 vulnerable native Indian species of freshwater turtle. [60] Between August 2018 and June 2019, a team of herpetologists from the NGO "Help Earth" found red-eared sliders in the Deepor Beel wildlife sanctuary and ...
Sea turtles: there are seven extant species of sea turtles, which live mostly along the tropical and subtropical coastlines, though some do migrate long distances and have been known to travel as far north as Scandinavia. Sea turtles are largely solitary animals, though some do form large, though often loosely connected groups during nesting ...
The semi-aquatic turtles that spend some time in the water, some on land, tend to have webbed feet with claws, while the fully aquatic marine turtles have flippers – and they can swim fast.
Most turtle species are helpful to the aquatic ecosystem.
Aquatic turtles mount in water, [88] [89] and female sea turtles support the mounting male while swimming and diving. [90] During copulation, the male turtle aligns his tail with the female's so he can insert his penis into her cloaca. [91] Some female turtles can store sperm from multiple males and their egg clutches can have multiple sires ...