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Abbreviation Legend

  • (CE) - Criticially Endangered
  • (CI) - Critically Imperiled
  • (E) - Endangered
  • (I) - Introduced
  • (IM) - Imperiled
  • (NT) - Near Threatened
  • (T) - Threatened
  • (V) - Vulnerable
  • (**) - Recent Classification Change
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Turtles & Tortoises of Delaware


There are 17 species/subspecies, representing 16 genus, found in Delaware with only 1 species being Introduced.



(T)

Loggerhead Sea Turtle
(Caretta caretta)
(I) (E)

African Spurred Tortoise
(Centrochelys sulcata)
(E)

Green Sea Turtle
(Chelonia mydas)

Snapping Turtle
(Chelydra serpentina)

Eastern Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta picta)
(E)

Spotted Turtle
(Clemmys guttata)
(V)

Leatherback Sea Turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea)
(V)

Atlantic Hawksbill Sea Turtle
(Eretmochelys imbricata imbricata)
(E)

Bog Turtle
(Glyptemys muhlenbergii)

Eastern Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum)
(CE)

Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
(Lepidichelys kempi)
(V)

Northern Diamondback Terrapin
(Malaclemys terrapin terrapin)
(NT)

Northern Red-Bellied Cooter
(Pseudemys rubriventris)

Eastern Musk Turtle or "Stinkpot"
(Sternotherus odoratus)
(V)

Eastern Box Turtle
(Terrapene carolina carolina)

Red-Eared Slider
(Trachemys scripta elegans)

Yellow-Bellied Slider
(Trachemys scripta scripta)
 

 

 

 

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