Alabama map turtle | |
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Alabama map turtle basking on a rock | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Subclass: | Anapsida |
Order: | Testudines |
Family: | Emydidae |
Subfamily: | Deirochelyinae |
Genus: | Graptemys |
Species: | Graptemys pulchra[1] (G. Baur, 1893)[1] |
The Alabama map turtle is a turtle commonly found in the Mobile Bay drainage of Alabama, Georgia and rarely Mississippi. The species is a larger map turtle with females attaining a length of 11" inches. The keel on this map turtle is not black and there is a varied, yellow head marking. They feed mainly on mollusks, insects, carrion, and vegetation.
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