#1680 · 🦎 reptiles

Ornate Box Turtle

🇳🇱 Sierdoosschildpad ·Terrapene ornata

NTnear threatened 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Eric Osmundson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Cullen Hanks · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jenny Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Bill Carrell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © TheUltimateSwordsman · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Janos, MX-CH, MX:© Enrique Perez Carrillo · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Arkansas, US:© Theo Witsell · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Texas, US:© Justin Quintanilla · CC BY 4.0
9. United States:© Libby Gonzalez · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Janos, MX-CH, MX:© Enrique Perez Carrillo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Terrapene ornata is a species of North American box turtle sometimes referred to as the western box turtle or ornate box turtle .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,731iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

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.
11,731 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1857 (169 years ago).