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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 & Tortoise of Mississippi

Turtles & Tortoise of Mississippi Page 1 of 2


There are 34 species/subspecies representing 18 genus found in Mississippi all of which are native to the United States.



Gulf Coast Smooth Softshell Turtle
(Apalone mutica calvata)

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

Loggerhead Sea Turtle
(Caretta caretta)
(E)

Green Sea Turtle
(Chelonia mydas)

Snapping Turtle
(Chelydra serpentina)

Southern Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys dorsalis)

Western Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia miaria)

Eastern Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia reticularia)
(V)

Leatherback Sea Turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea)
(V)

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

Gopher Tortoise
(Gopherus polyphemus)
(V)

Yellow-Blotched Map Turtle
(Graptemys flavimaculata)

Northern Map Turtle
(Graptemys geographica)
(E)

Pascagoula Map Turtle
(Graptemys gibbonsi)

Black-Knobbed Map Turtle
(Graptemys nigrinoda)
(V)

Ringed Map Turtle
(Graptemys oculifera)

Ouachita Map Turtle
(Graptemys ouachitensis)
(E)

Pearl River Map Turtle
(Graptemys pearlensis)

Mississippi Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii)

Mississippi Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis)

Southeastern Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum)
(CE)

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

Alligator Snapping Turtle
(Macrochelys temmincki)
(V)

Mississippi Diamondback Terrapin
(Malaclemys terrapin pileata)
(E)

Alabama Red-Bellied Cooter
(Pseudemys alabamensis)

Eastern River Cooter
(Pseudemys concinna concinna)

Razor-Backed Musk Turtle
(Sternotherus carinatus)

Loggerhead Musk Turtle
(Sternotherus minor)

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

Eastern Box Turtle
(Terrapene carolina carolina)
 

 

 

 

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