#1708 · 🦎 reptiles

Texas Cooter

Pseudemys texana

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © texasturtles · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Mary Ann Melton · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Sam Kieschnick · CC BY 4.0
7. Bexar County, TX, USA:© chrislbelcher · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Trimmier Creek, Killeen, TX, US:© Kevin Graham · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Lake Lyndon B Johnson, Horseshoe Bay, TX, US:© johnwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Keene, TX, USA:© Alyssa Harvey · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Texas river cooter ( Pseudemys texana ) is a species of freshwater turtle native to creeks, rivers, and lakes of the US state of Texas. It is found in the river basins of the Colorado, Brazos, Guadalupe, and San Antonio Rivers. It is one of two species of cooter native to the state, the other being the Eastern River Cooter.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,412iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
8,412 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Georg Baur in 1893 (133 years ago).