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Emys blandingii (Blanding's Turtle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Blanding's turtle (Emys blandingii or Emydoidea blandingii ) is a semi-aquatic turtle of the family Emydidae. This North American turtle is considered to be an endangered species throughout much of its range.
View Wikipedia Record: Emys blandingii

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Emys blandingii

Attributes

Gestation [2]  73 days
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [3]  8
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  77 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds
Adult Weight [2]  2.562 lbs (1.162 kg)
Female Weight [2]  2.562 lbs (1.162 kg)
Female Maturity [3]  17 years 9 months
Male Maturity [3]  12 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Minnesota

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pseudotelorchis compactus <Unverified Name>[4]
Spirorchis artericola[4]
Spirorchis innominatus[4]
Spirorchis scripta[4]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0