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Terrapene carolina (Florida Box Turtle; Eastern box turtle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is a species of box turtle with six existing subspecies. It is found throughout the eastern United States and Mexico. The box turtle has a distinctive hinged lowered shell (the box) that allows it to completely enclose itself. Its upper jaw is long and curved. The turtle is primarily terrestrial and eats a wide variety of plants and animals. The females lay their eggs in the summer. Turtles in the northern part of their range hibernate over the winter.
View Wikipedia Record: Terrapene carolina

Infraspecies

Terrapene carolina bauri (Florida box turtle)
Terrapene carolina carolina (Eastern box turtle)
Terrapene carolina major (Gulf Coast box turtle)
Terrapene carolina triunguis

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Terrapene carolina

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  372 grams
Female Weight [1]  372 grams
Diet [2]  Omnivore
Female Maturity [3]  6 years
Male Maturity [3]  6 years
Gestation [1]  55 days
Hibernates [2]  Yes
Litter Size [4]  4
Litters / Year [4]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  138 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Heterodon platirhinos (Eastern Hognose Snake)[5]
Mephitis mephitis (Striped Skunk)[5]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[5]
Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox)[5]

Providers

Consumers

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
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 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
♦ 4Turtles and Tortoises Demographic Traits Database for CITES Listed Species ver. 01, Species360 (2018)
♦ 5Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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