Kentucky Turtles

Order:  Testudines

Family: Chelydridae

Common snapping turtle            Chelydra serpentina serpentina      

Alligator snapping turtle            Macroclemys temminckii     

Family:  Emydidae

Southern painted turtle            Chrysemys picta dorsalis         

Midland painted turtle            Chrysemys picta marginata      

Common map turtle            Graptemys geographica  

Mississippi map turtle            Graptemys kohni  

Ouachita map turtle            Graptemys pseudogeographica ouachitensis   

False map turtle            Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica

Eastern river cooter            Pseudemys concinna cocinna         

Hieroglyphic river cooter            Pseudemys concinna hieroglyphica

Eastern box turtle            Terrapene carolina carolina

Red-eared slider            Trachemys scripta elegans   

Cumberland slider            Trachemys scripta troostii

Family: Kinosternidae

Eastern mud turtle            Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum    

Mississippi mud turtle            Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis   

Stinkpot            Sternotherus odoratus       

Family: Trionychidae

Midland smooth softshell turtle             Apalone muticus muticus         

Eastern spiny softshell turtle              Apalone spinifera spinifera         

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