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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 Florida

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There are 57 species/subspecies, representing 24 genus, found in Florida with 6 of them being Introduced.



Florida Softshell Turtle
(Apalone ferox)

Gulf Coast Smooth Softshell Turtle
(Apalone mutica calvata)

Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell Turtle
(Apalone spinifera aspera)
(T)

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

African Spurred Tortoise
(Centrochelys sulcata)
(E)

Green Sea Turtle
(Chelonia mydas)
(I)

Red-Footed Tortoise
(Chelonoidis carbonarius)
(I) (V)

Brazilian Giant Tortoise
(Chelonoidis denticulatus)

Snapping Turtle
(Chelydra serpentina)

Southern Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys dorsalis)

Western Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta belli)

Eastern Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta picta)
(E)

Spotted Turtle
(Clemmys guttata)

Florida Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia chrysea)

Western Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia miaria)

Eastern Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia reticularia)
(V)

Leatherback Sea Turtle
(Dermochelys coriacae)
(I)

Jardine River Turtle
(Emydura subglobosa)
(V)

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

Gopher Tortoise
(Gopherus polyphemus)
(V)

Barbour's Map Turtle
(Graptemys barbouri)
(NT)

Escambia Map Turtle
(Graptemys ernsti)
(V)

Ringed Map Turtle
(Graptemys oculifera)

Ouachita Map Turtle
(Graptemys ouachitensis)

MIssissippi Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii)

Northern False Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica)
(NT)

Alabama Map Turtle
(Graptemys pulchra)
(CE) (I)

Elongated Tortoise
(Indotestudo elongata)

Striped Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon bauri)

Florida Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon steindachneri)
 

 

 

 

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