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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 Georgia

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There are 38 species/subspecies, representing 22 genus, found in Georgia with 2 species being Intorduced.



Florida Softshell Turtle
(Apalone ferox)

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)

Snapping Turtle
(Chelydra serpentina)

Midland Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta marginata)

Eastern Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta picta)
(E)

Spotted Turtle
(Clemmys guttata)

Eastern Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia reticularia)
(V)

Leatherback Sea Turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea)
(V)

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

Bog Turtle
(Glyptemys muhlenbergii)
(V)

Gopher Tortoise
(Gopherus polyphemus)
(V)

Barbour's Map Turtle
(Graptemys barbouri)

Northern Map Turtle
(Graptemys geographica)

Mississippi Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii)
(NT)

Alabama Map Turtle
(Graptemys pulchra)

Striped Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon baurii)

Eastern Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum)
(CE)

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

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle
(Macrochelys suwanniensis)
(V)

Alligator Snapping Turtle
(Macrochelys temmincki)
(V)

Carolina Diamondback Terrapin
(Malaclemys terrapin centrata)

Eastern River Cooter
(Pseudemys concinna concinna)

Coastal Plain Cooter
(Pseudemys concinna floridana)

Suwannee Cooter
(Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis)

Florida Redbelly Cooter
(Pseudemys nelsoni)

Loggerhead Musk Turtle
(Sternotherus minor)
 

 

 

 

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