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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 Texas

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There are 54 species/subspecies representing 25 genus found in Texas with 11 species being Introduced.



Midland Smooth Softshell Turtle
(Apalone mutica mutica)

Texas Spiny Softshell Turtle
(Apalone spinifera emoryi)

Guadalupe Spiny Softshell Turtle
(Apalone spinifera guadalupensis)

Pallid Spiny Softshell Turtle
(Apalone spinifera pallida)

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

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

Pig-Nosed Turtle
(Carettochelys insculpta)
(I) (E)

African Spurred Tortoise
(Centrochelys sulcata)
(E)

Green Sea Turtle
(Chelonia mydas)
(I)

Red-Footed Tortoise
(Chelonoidis carbonarius)

Snapping Turtle
(Chelydra serpentina)

Southern Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys dorsalis)

Western Painted Turtle
(Chrysemys picta bellii)
(I) (E)

South Asian Box Turtle
(Cuora amboinensis)
(I) (E)

Chinese Box Turtle
(Cuora flavomarginata)

Western Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia miaria)
(V)

Leatherback Sea Turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea)

Berlandier's (Texas) Tortoise
(Gopherus berlandieri)
(V)

Gopher Tortoise
(Gopherus polyphemus)
(E)

Cagle's Map Turtle
(Graptemys caglei)

Ouachita Map Turtle
(Graptemys ouachitensis)

Mississippi Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii)

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

Sabine Map Turtle
(Graptemys sabinensis)

Texas Map Turtle
(Graptemys versa)

Yellow Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon flavescens)

Big Bend Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon hirtipes murrayi)

Mississippi Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis)
(CE)

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

Alligator Snapping Turtle
(Macrochelys temmincki)
 

 

 

 

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