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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 Virginia


There are 30 species/subspecies representing 29 genus found in Virginia with 1 species being Introduced.



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

Loggerhead Sea Turtle
(Caretta caretta)
(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)

Eastern Chicken Turtle
(Deirochelys reticularia reticularia)
(V)

Leatherback Sea Turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea)
(V)

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

Wood Turtle
(Glyptemys insculpta)
(E)

Bog Turtle
(Glyptemys muhlenbergii)

Northern Map Turtle
(Graptemys geographica)

Mississippi Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii)

Northern False Map Turtle
(Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica)

Striped Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon baurii)

Southeastern Mud Turtle
(Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum)
(CE)

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

Northern Diamondback Terrapin
(Malaclemys terrapin terrapin)

Eastern River Cooter
(Pseudemys concinna concinna)

Coastal Plain Cooter
(Pseudemys floridana)
(NT)

Northern Red-Bellied Cooter
(Pseudemys rubriventris)

Eastern Musk Turtle or "Stinkpot"
(Sternotherus odoratus)

Stripe-Necked Musk Turtle
(Sternotherus peltifer)
(V)

Eastern Box Turtle
(Terrapene carolina carolina)
(V)

Three-Toed Box Turtle
(Terrapene carolina triunguis)
(I) (V)

Afghan Tortoise
(Testudo horsfieldii)

Red-Eared Slider
(Trachemys scripta elegans)

Yellow-Bellied Slider
(Trachemys scripta scripta)

Cumberland Slider
(Trachemys scripta troosti)
 

 

 

 

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