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Sternotherus depressus (Flattened Musk Turtle)

Wikipedia Abstract

The flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus) is a species of turtle in the Kinosternidae family. It is endemic to the southern United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Sternotherus depressus

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Sternotherus depressus

Attributes

Egg Length [2]  1.26 inches (32 mm)
Gestation [2]  3 months 16 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [2]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  60 years
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  144 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3 grams
Female Weight [2]  144 grams
Female Maturity [2]  8 years
Male Maturity [2]  4 years 3 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Southeastern mixed forests United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

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
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