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Turtles Flashcards

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Side-necked turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Suborder: Pleurodira
  • 3 families
  • restricted primarily to Southern Hemisphere
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Australoamerican side-necked turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Chelidae

- flattened skulls, shells

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African side-necked turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Pelomedusidae

- bottom walkers, not strong swimmers

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Madagascan and South America side-necked turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Podocnemididae
  • Largest known turtle ever
  • flat shells, active swimmers
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Hidden-necked turtles (suborder and characteristics)

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  • suborder: Cryptodira

- 11 families representing the majority of turtle diversity

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Pig-nosed turtles (family, characteristics)

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  • Family: Carettochelyidae

- Nostrils resembling pig

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Softshell turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Trionychidae
  • fully aquatic, strong swimmers
  • carapace covered in leathery skin
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Spiny softshell turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Apalone spinifera
  • can breathe through skin
  • genetic sex determination
  • scattered on western nose of NY
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Mud and musk turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Kinosternidae

- musk glands on underside

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Common musk turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Sternotherus odoratus
  • Barbels under chin
  • front of plastron hinged
  • found in Oswego area and S NY
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Eastern mud turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Kinosternon subrubrum
  • doubly hinged plastron
  • Only in long island
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Snapping turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Chelydridae

- limbs, head, and tail cannot be retracted into shell

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Common snapping turtles (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Chelydra serpentina
  • symbiotic relationship with painted turtles
  • saw toothed tail
  • everywhere in NY
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Sea turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Cheloniidae
  • Complete marine except when nesting
  • claws present
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Loggerhead sea turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Caretta caretta
  • named for large head
  • the furniture turtle
  • only in long island
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Green sea turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Chelonia mydas
  • Bask on shore for vitamin D
  • named for greenish fat
  • one pair of prefrontal plates
  • only in long island
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Atlantic hawksbill (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Eretmochelys imbricata
  • two pairs of prefrontal plates
  • source of turtle shell jewlery
  • nuchal scute separated from costals
  • only in long island
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Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Lepidochelys kempii
  • smallest sea turtle in NY
  • nuchal scute touches costals
  • only in long island
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What species exhibits group nesting, and what is it called

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  • Kemp’s Ridley

- Arribada nesting

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Leatherback sea turtles (family and characteristics)

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-Family: Dermochelyidae

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Leatherback sea turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Dermochelys coriacea
  • largest extant turtle
  • eats jellyfish
  • carapace composed of osteoderms
  • no claws
  • only in long island
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Threats to sea turtles

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  • pollution
  • fisheries bycatch
  • climate change
  • coastal development
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Pond and river turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Emydidae
  • some have hinged plastrons
  • no range given
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Painted turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Chrysemys picta
  • prefers slow moving waters
  • red bars on marginal scutes
  • found everywhere in NY
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Spotted turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Clemmys guttata
  • black with yellow dots on carapace and head
  • vernal pools, uplants, wetlands (seasonally)
  • Found in oswego and to the west, also S NY
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Wood turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Glyptemys insculpta
  • genetic sex determination
  • Riverside or streamside, woodlands
  • large home ranges
  • spotty range throughout NY, common in S NY
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Bog turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Glyptemys muhlenbergii
  • smallest turtle in NY
  • wet meadows and fens
  • found in oswego and S NY
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Blanding’s turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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-Emydoidea blandingii
-smiley face, notched upper jaw
Found in N W S NY

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Northern map turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Graptemys geographica
  • contour map-like markings
  • found along the Hudson
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Eastern box turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Terrapene carolina carolina
  • highly domed carapace
  • plastron double hinged
  • lives 100+ years
  • S NY, some found in SW NY
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Diamondback terrapin (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Malaclemys terrapin
  • webbed feet, large hind limbs
  • concentric grooves on scutes
  • found only in long island
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Red-eared slider (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Trachemys scripta elegans
  • exotic
  • subspecies of pond slider
  • found in long island and few spots along NY
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Yellowbelly slider (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Trachemys scripta scripta
  • native to SE US
  • pets that were released in the wild
  • only long island
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Eastern redbelly turtle (name, range, characteristics)

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  • Pseudemys rubriventris
  • reddish to orange yellow plastron
  • long island and central NY
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Bigheaded turtles (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Platysternidae

- china

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Old world emydids (family and characteristics)

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  • Family: Geoemydidae

- S europe to japan, central and s america

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Totoises (family and characteristics)

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Family: Testudinidae

-head and limbs fully withdrawn

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