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Malaclemys terrapin (Diamondback Terrapin)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) or simply terrapin, is a species of turtle native to the brackish coastal swamps of the eastern and southern United States, and in Bermuda. It belongs to the monotypic genus, Malaclemys. It has one of the largest ranges of all turtles in North America, stretching as far south as Florida Keys and as far north as Cape Cod.
View Wikipedia Record: Malaclemys terrapin

Infraspecies

Malaclemys terrapin centrata (Carolina diamondback terrapin)
Malaclemys terrapin littoralis (Texas diamondback terrapin)
Malaclemys terrapin macrospilota (Ornate diamondback terrapin)
Malaclemys terrapin pileata (Mississippi diamondback terrapin)
Malaclemys terrapin rhizophorarum (Mangrove diamondback terrapin)
Malaclemys terrapin tequesta (Florida East Coast terrapin)
Malaclemys terrapin terrapin (Northern diamondback terrapin)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Malaclemys terrapin

Attributes

Egg Length [3]  1.142 inches (29 mm)
Egg Width [3]  0.827 inches (21 mm)
Gestation [2]  84 days
Litter Size [2]  9
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  14 years
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  1.587 lbs (720 g)
Birth Weight [3]  6 grams
Female Weight [3]  1.953 lbs (886 g)
Female Maturity [2]  6 years
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Maryland

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[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
♦ 2de 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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