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Alligator Snapping Turtles
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Alligator Snapping Turtles

Macrochelys

Macrochelys is a genus of very large freshwater turtles in the family Chelydridae from Southeastern United States. Only a single extant species was recognized until a 2014 study divided it into several species.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Alligator Snapping Turtle

speciesMacrochelys temminckii

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

speciesMacrochelys suwanniensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39693.