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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 Maryland


There are 26 species/subspecies, representing 18 genus, found in Maryland with 2 species being Introduced.



Northern Spiny Softshell Turtle
(Apalone spinifera spinifera)
(T)

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

African Spurred Tortoise
(Centrochelys sulcata)
(E)

Green Sea Turtle
(Chelonia mydas)

Snapping Turtle
(Chelydra serpentina)

Midland Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta marginata)

Eastern Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta picta)
(E)

Spotted Turtle
(Clemmys guttata)
(V)

Leatherback Sea Turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea)
(E)

Wood Turtle
(Glyptemys insculpta)
(E)

Bog Turtle
(Glyptemys muhlenbergii)

Northern Map Turtle
(Graptemys geographica)

Mississippi Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii)

Striped Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon baurii)

Southeastern Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum)
(CE)

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

Northern Diamondback Terrapin
(Malaclemys terrapin terrapin)
(I) (V) (**)

Chinese Softshell Turtle
(Pelodiscus sinensis)

Eastern River Cooter
(Pseudemys concinna concinna)

Coastal Plain Cooter
(Pseudemys concinna floridana)
(NT)

Northern Red-Bellied Cooter
(Pseudemys rubriventris)

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

Eastern Box Turtle
(Terrapene carolina carolina)
(V)

Three-Toed Box Turtle
(Terrapene carolina triunguis)

Red-Eared Slider
(Trachemys scripta elegans)

Yellow-Bellied Slider
(Trachemys scripta scripta)
 

 

 

 

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