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Sternotherus odoratus (Common Musk Turtle, Stinkpot Turtle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sternotherus odoratus is a species of small turtle native to southeastern Canada and much of the Eastern United States. It is also known as the common musk turtle or stinkpot due to its ability to release a foul musky odor from scent glands on the edge of its shell, possibly to deter predation.
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Attributes

Gestation [2]  62 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [2]  4
Maximum Longevity [3]  55 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  138 grams
Female Weight [2]  138 grams
Female Maturity [3]  3 years 6 months
Male Maturity [3]  3 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

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

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Amphibiocapillaria serpentina <Unverified Name>[6]
Hapalorhynchus reelfooti[6]
Polystomoidella oblonga[6]

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
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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