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Pseudemys nelsoni (Florida Redbelly Turtle; Florida red-bellied turtle)

Synonyms: Chrysemys nelsoni; Deirochelys floridana; Pseudemys rubriventris nelsoni; Trachemys jarmani

Wikipedia Abstract

The Florida red-bellied cooter or Florida redbelly turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni ) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Pseudemys nelsoni

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.265 lbs (3.749 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  8 grams
Female Weight [1]  8.243 lbs (3.739 kg)
Female Maturity [1]  8 years
Male Maturity [1]  6 years
Gestation [1]  73 days
Litter Size [1]  15
Litters / Year [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  26 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Everglades United States Neotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Florida sand pine scrub United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
South Florida rocklands United States Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southeastern conifer forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Big Cypress National Preserve V 732120 Florida, United States
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge IV 38256 Florida, United States

Prey / Diet

Elodea densa (Brazilian waterweed)[3]
Hydrilla verticillata (waterthyme)[3]
Lemna minor (common duckweed)[3]
Vallisneria americana (Water Celery)[3]
Wolffiella gladiata (Florida mudmidget)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Alligator mississippiensis (Alligator, Gator, American alligator, Florida alligator, Mississippi alligator, Louisiana alligator.)[4]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[4]
Rostrhamus sociabilis (Snail Kite)[5]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Dietary Overlap in Three Sympatric Congeneric Freshwater Turtles (Pseudemys) in Florida, Karen A. Bjorndal, Alan B. Bolten, Cynthia J. Lagueux and Dale R. Jackson, Chelonian Conservation Biology, 1997, 2(3):430-433
♦ 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.
♦ 5ALTERNATIVE FOODS OF A DIET SPECIALIST, THE SNAIL KITE, STEVEN R. BEISSINGER, The Auk 107: 327-333. April 1990
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