#1733 · 🦎 reptiles

Spotted Turtle

🇳🇱 Druppelschildpad ·Clemmys guttata

ENendangered 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Todd Pierson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Tom Preney · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Massachusetts, US:© eggimann · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Virginia, US:© Evan Spears · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Maine, US:© Trevor Persons · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. United States:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Florida, US:© ernesthwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

7 in) upon adulthood. Their broad, smooth, low dark-colored upper shell, or carapace, ranges in its exact colour from black to a bluish black with a number of tiny yellow round spots. The spotting patterning extends from the head, to the neck and out onto the limbs. Males and females can be...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,864iNaturalist observations
threat ENendangered

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,864 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1792 (234 years ago).
Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.