#1528 · 🦎 reptiles
Mediterranean Turtle
🇳🇱 Moorse Beekschildpad ·Mauremys leprosa
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
The Spanish pond turtle or Mediterranean turtle ( Mauremys leprosa ) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,561 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by August Friedrich Schweigger in 1812 (214 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Mediterranean Turtle
- Nederlands
- Moorse Beekschildpad
- scientific name
- Mauremys leprosa
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Geoemydidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5,078
- sightings worldwide
- 6,561
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1812 by August Friedrich Schweigger
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Geoemydidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 39976, Wikidata Q582797, GBIF 2443341, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.