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Terrapene nelsoni (Spotted box turtle; Nelson's box turtle)

Synonyms: Terrapene klauberi

Wikipedia Abstract

The spotted box turtle (Terrapene nelsoni ) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Terrapene nelsoni

Infraspecies

Terrapene nelsoni klauberi (Northern spotted box turtle)
Terrapene nelsoni nelsoni (Southern spotted box turtle)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  372 grams
Female Weight [1]  372 grams
Egg Length [1]  1.85 inches (47 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.063 inches (27 mm)
Litter Size [2]  3
Maximum Longevity [3]  25 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sinaloan dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama Yes

External References

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
♦ 2Turtles and Tortoises Demographic Traits Database for CITES Listed Species ver. 01, Species360 (2018)
♦ 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
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