Animalia > Chordata > Testudines > Emydidae > Pseudemys > Pseudemys texanaPseudemys texana (Texas River Cooter; Texas cooter)Synonyms: Pseudemys concinna texana; Pseudemys floridana texana The Texas river cooter (Pseudemys texana) is a species of freshwater turtle native to creeks, rivers, and lakes of the US state of Texas. It is found in the river basins of the Colorado, Brazos, Guadalupe, and San Antonio Rivers. It is one of two species of cooter native to the state, the other being the Eastern River Cooter. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 6.596 lbs (2.992 kg) | | Female Weight [1] | 6.596 lbs (2.992 kg) |  | | Female Maturity [1] | 6 years 6 months | | Male Maturity [1] | 3 years 3 months | | | Gestation [1] | 83 days | | Litter Size [1] | 13 | | Litters / Year [1] | 2 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 44 years |
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Central and Southern mixed grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central forest-grasslands transition |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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East Central Texas forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Edwards Plateau savanna |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Texas blackland prairies |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western Gulf Coastal grasslands |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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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 ♦ 2Food Habits and Selective Foraging by the Texas River Cooter (Pseudemys texana) in Spring Lake, Hays County, Texas, JACQUELINE R. FIELDS, THOMAS R. SIMPSON, RICHARD W. MANNING, AND FRANCIS L. ROSE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 726729, 2003 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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