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KY Reptiles | KY Lists | |
Turtles of Kentucky |
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| Order Testudines | |||
| Family Chelydridae | |||
| Common Snapping Turtle | Chelydra serpentina serpentina | ||
| Alligator Snapping Turtle | Macroclemys temminckii | ||
| Family Kinosternidae | |||
| Common Musk Turtle | Sternotherus odoratus | ||
| Eastern Mud Turtle | Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum | ||
| Mississippi Mud Turtle | Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis | ||
| Family Emydidae | |||
| Eastern Box Turtle | Terrapene carolina carolina | ||
| Common Map Turtle | Graptemys geographica | ||
| Mississippi Map Turtle | Graptemys kohnii | ||
| False Map Turtle | Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica | ||
| Ouachita Map Turtle | Graptemys pseudogeographica ouachitensis | ||
| Red-eared Slider | Trachemys scripta elegans | ||
| Eastern River Cooter | Pseudemys concinna concinna | ||
| Hieroglyphic River Cooter | Pseudemys concinna hieroglyphica | ||
| Midland Painted Turtle | Chrysemys picta marginata | ||
| Southern Painted Turtle | Chrysemys picta dorsalis | ||
| Family Trionychidae | |||
| Midland Smooth Softshell | Apalone mutica mutica | ||
| Eastern Spiny Softshell | Apalone spinifera spinifera | ||
References
Behler, John. L., and F. W. King. 1979. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 743 pp.
Conant, Roger, and Joseph T. Collins. 1998. Reptiles and Amphibians, 3rd edition: Peterson Field Guides. Houghton Mifflin Company. 450 pp.
Ernst, C. H., R. W. Barbour, and J. E. Lovich. 1994. Turtles of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Johnson, Tom R. 1997. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Missouri. Missouri Department of Conservation. 369 pp.
Martof, Bernard S, William M. Palmer, Joseph R. Bailey, and Julian R. Harrison, III. 1980. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. The University of North Carolina Press. 264 pp.
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