#1547 · 🦎 reptiles
Western Caspian Turtle
🇳🇱 Balkanbeekschildpad ·Mauremys rivulata
🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
The Balkan pond turtle or western Caspian turtle ( Mauremys rivulata ) is a species of turtles 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.
- 2,830 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Achille Valenciennes in 1833 (193 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Western Caspian Turtle
- Nederlands
- Balkanbeekschildpad
- scientific name
- Mauremys rivulata
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Geoemydidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 968
- sightings worldwide
- 2,830
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1833 by Achille Valenciennes
relatives· Geoemydidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 105329, Wikidata Q1504849, GBIF 2443384, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.