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The Florida red-bellied cooter is commonly exported for consumption and the pet trade, with about 50% wild caught individuals and 50% captive bred. Most of US export statistics (as collected by the World Chelonian Trust in 2002–2005) simply describe exported turtles by the genus, Pseudemys , without identifying the species.
Both races can be distinguished from sympatric Pseudemys species by the immaculate yellow color of their plastrons and the lack of a U-shaped cusp in the upper jaw (characteristic of the Florida redbelly turtle). The carapace length of the size ranges from 23 to 33 cm (9.1 to 13.0 in) typically and the normal weigh is (in the slightly larger ...
Spotted turtle; Painted turtle; Chicken turtle; Coastal plain cooter; Common box turtle; false map turtle; Escambia map turtle; Barbour's map turtle; Florida red-bellied cooter; Peninsula cooter; Suwannee cooter; Red-eared slider; Yellow-bellied slider; Eastern river cooter; Diamondback terrapin
Joanna Fitzgerald, the director of the von Arx Wildlife Hospital at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, says turtles deserve a better fate on our roads.
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.
Three sea turtles are back in their natural habitats after being rehabilitated at a facility in Florida. All three rehabbed at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium on Florida's Gulf Coast after being ...
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Two species are IUCN Endangered: the Alabama red-bellied turtle (Alabama) and the loggerhead sea turtle (South Carolina, also the state saltwater reptile of Florida). [3] [15] However, in the United States, only the Alabama red-bellied turtle is legally an endangered species. [132]