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Florida Red-bellied Cooter
Pseudemys nelsoni Carr, 1938
Also calledCooter di Nelson (ita) · Florida roodbuikschildpad (foutieve spelling) (nld) · Florida-Rotbauch-Schmuckschildkröte (deu) · Florida-Rotbauchschmuckschildkröte (deu) · Floridaroodbuikschildpad (nld) · Nelson-ékszerteknős (hun) · Pseudémyde de Nelson (fra) · Pseudémyde de Nelson (La) (fra) · Sydlig Rødbuget Terrapin (dan) · Tartaruga-de-barriga-vermelha-da-florida (por) · Testuggine dal ventre rosso (ita) · tortuga de vientre rojo de Florida (spa) · želva Nelsonova (ces) · سلحفاة كوتر الفلوريدية حمراء البطن (ara)
First described in: Carr, A. F. Pseudemys nelsoni, a new turtle from Florida.
The Florida red-bellied cooter or Florida redbelly turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to the southeastern United States.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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Holotype: MCZ 39888 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946: 178); paratypes (9), CM 12995 - 96 (McCoy & Richmond 1966: 249); MCZ 43847 - 48 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946: 179); UF 741 and 1748 (only the latter located by Gilbert 1974: 117); UMMZ 83129 - 31 (Peters 1952: 55; Kluge 1984: 83). Unidentified paratype photographed in the original description, p. 308, Fig. 1. MCZ on-line catalog also lists MCZ 13934 - 35, 13938, 19181, 19183, and 43848 as paratypes.
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Florida red-bellied cooter can be distinguished from other similar turtles by its distinctive red-tinged plastron (belly) and two cusps (like teeth) on its upper beak. Like most turtles of the genus Pseudemys, this species is a fairly large river turtle. Straight-line carapace length in mature turtles can range from 20.3 to 37.5 cm (8.0 to 14.8 in). Females, which average 30.5 cm (12.0 in) in carapace length and weigh 4 kg (8.8 lb), are noticeably larger than males, which are around 25 cm (9.8 in) and 1.8 kg (4.0 lb) in mass.
Range & habitat
Pseudemys nelsoni is native to Florida, and southern Georgia. Fossils of P. nelsoni have also been found along the coast of South Carolina from the Pleistocene Epoch, indicating that the historic range of this species used to extend farther north. Today, its northern counterpart, the Northern Red-bellied Cooter (Psuedemys rubriventris) occupies this region.
In human culture
The specific name, nelsoni, is in honor of American biologist George Nelson (born 1873).
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Pseudemys nelsoni in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2442843.