South Florida Turtles Pictures
Fans of florida turtles need not fret.
South florida turtles pictures. South carolina 23 virginia 23 arkansas 21 tennessee 21 maryland 20 missouri 20 oklahoma 20 delaware 18 indiana 18 new jersey 18 kentucky 17. Eastern painted turtles on log. Stock photo by pipehorse 4 224 florida cooter turtles pictures by sadakko 0 7 softshell turtle apalone ferox sits on a log with a florida red bellied turtle pseudemys nelsoni stock image by smitty411 1 5 gopher tortoise stock image by wilsilver77 2 20 green turtle on a reef in south east florida. Among the many species of turtles living in florida several are considered endangered or threatened.
In this article i am going to take a closer look at each species and cover a few basic things about them things like the appearance lifespan how big it can get diet where it lives conservation status and reproduction. A post shared on the fwc fish and wildlife research institute details how biologists. Quick list of the native turtles of florida. 17 778 turtles stock photos are available royalty free.
There exist more than 300 different species of turtles in the world with the largest being the leatherback sea turtle with an average shell length of 6 6 ft and weight of 2 000 lb and the smallest being the speckled padloper tortoise with an average length of 3 1 inches and weight of 5 oz. Florida box turtle terrapene ornata ornata ornate box turtle terrapene ornata luteola desert box turtle trachemys gaigeae big bend slider trachemys scripta. Florida counts thirteen species listed below. Florida is home to 34 turtle species.
Most baby sea turtles about 1 in 1 000 to 1 in 10 000 survive to adulthood and many that do are killed by predators or humans. The largest and the smallest turtle. The males of this subspecies show a very noticeable concavity on the bottom of their shells or plastron whereas the plastron of male three toed box turtles tends to be nearly flat. Photographed in a south florida wetland.
Snorkelling around westpunt with turtles. Checklist of florida turtles click on thumbnails for a larger view apalone ferox schneider 1783 florida softshell. Non native in florida keys apalone mutica le sueur 1827 smooth softshell apalone mutica calvata webb 1959 gulf coast smooth softshell apalone spinifera le sueur 1827 spiny softshell apalone spinifera aspera agassiz 1857 gulf coast spiny softshell. Alabama map turtle graptemys pulchra.
Florida water turtles most people associate florida turtles with the family emydidae the fresh water turtles. Pictures of three turtles found in the new river florida have gone viral after being shared on facebook. A group of eastern painted turtles resting on a log. All the sea turtle species including the loggerhead appear on florida s threatened or endangered species lists.
The florida box turtle typically boasts yellow radiating bands on a very domed shell carapace as well as yellow stripes on each side of its head.
