Animalia > Chordata > Testudines > Emydidae > Pseudemys > Pseudemys rubriventris

Pseudemys rubriventris (Eastern Redbelly Turtle, Northern Red-bellied Turtle; Northern red-bellied cooter)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The northern red-bellied turtle (Pseudemys rubriventris) or American red-bellied turtle is a species of turtle in the Pseudemys (cooter) genus of the Emydidae family. A fairly large river turtle, it averages about 29 to 30 cm (11 to 12 in) in length and weighs on average around 3 kg (6.6 lb), although large females can measure up to 40 cm (16 in) in length. It is endemic to the United States. The current range of the red-bellied turtle includes a colony in Massachusetts which was previously a separate species (Pseudemys rubriventris bangsii) as well as the coastal areas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
View Wikipedia Record: Pseudemys rubriventris

Attributes

Gestation [2]  73 days
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [2]  15
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  4 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Brackish Water
Adult Weight [2]  7.666 lbs (3.477 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  8 grams
Female Weight [2]  7.141 lbs (3.239 kg)
Diet [1]  Omnivore
Female Maturity [2]  11 years
Male Maturity [3]  9 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Atlantic coastal pine barrens United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests  
Middle Atlantic coastal forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Northeastern coastal forests United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Southeastern mixed forests United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge VI 16363 Delaware, United States
Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park V 9316 Virginia, United States
George Washington Birthplace National Monument V 435 Virginia, United States
New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve   New Jersey, United States  
Virginia Coast Biosphere Reserve 33386 Virginia, United States  

External References

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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
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