#1491 · 🦎 reptiles
Ouachita Map Turtle
🇳🇱 Ouachitazaagrugschildpad ·Graptemys ouachitensis
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Diego Kondratzky · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Josh More · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Agustín Silgado · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © brian fisher · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Antonio Xeira · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Kala Murphy King · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Helen A. Czech · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Luke Pearson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Dylan Winkler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Ouachita map turtle or Sabine map turtle ( Graptemys ouachitensis ) is a species of turtle endemic to the United States.
base stats
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
- Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #18 most seen of the reptiles in NL.
- 2,467 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Ouachita Map Turtle
- Nederlands
- Ouachitazaagrugschildpad
- scientific name
- Graptemys ouachitensis
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Emydidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 301
- sightings worldwide
- 2,467
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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LC 👀 321 in NL
#1481 📷 9River Cooter
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LC 👀 4 in NL
#1482 📷 10Florida Red-bellied Cooter
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LC 👀 3 in NL
#1483 📷 10False Map Turtle
🇳🇱 Onechte Landkaartschildpad
Graptemys pseudogeographica
LC 👀 3 in NL
#1489 📷 10Peninsular Cooter
🇳🇱 Florida Sierschildpad
Pseudemys peninsularis
LC 👀 1 in NL
#1492 📷 9Painted Turtle
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LC 🌍 189.7k seen
#1495 📷 10Common Box Turtle
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VU 🌍 112.7k seen
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 371940, Wikidata Q617739, GBIF 2443079, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.