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  3. Chordates
  4. Reptiles
  5. Turtles and Tortoises
  6. Pond and Box Turtles
  7. Deirochelyine Turtles

subfamily

Deirochelyine Turtles

Deirochelyinae

Includes
25 native 1 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Map Turtles 12 native
  • Cooters 7 native
  • Slider Turtles 2 native
  • Painted Turtles 2 native
  • Diamondback Terrapins 1 native
  • Chicken Turtles 1 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native deirochelyine turtles All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Pond Slider Trachemys scripta 255,353 observations
  • Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta 185,450 observations
  • Northern Map Turtle Graptemys geographica 19,926 observations
  • River Cooter Pseudemys concinna 19,486 observations
  • Diamondback Terrapin Malaclemys terrapin 16,802 observations
  • Northern Red-bellied Cooter Pseudemys rubriventris 10,780 observations
  • Florida Red-bellied Cooter Pseudemys nelsoni 9,821 observations
  • Texas Cooter Pseudemys texana 8,313 observations
  • Peninsular Cooter Pseudemys peninsularis 8,087 observations
  • False Map Turtle Graptemys pseudogeographica 5,134 observations
  • Ouachita Map Turtle Graptemys ouachitensis 2,370 observations
  • Coastal Plain Cooter Pseudemys floridana 1,607 observations
  • Chicken Turtle Deirochelys reticularia 1,344 observations
  • Texas Map Turtle Graptemys versa 983 observations
  • Rio Grande Cooter Pseudemys gorzugi 964 observations
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