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Cooters
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Cooters

Pseudemys

Pseudemys is a genus of large, herbivorous, freshwater turtles of the eastern United States and adjacent northeast Mexico. They are often referred to as cooters, which stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves.

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8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species

River Cooter

speciesPseudemys concinna

Northern Red-bellied Cooter

speciesPseudemys rubriventris

Florida Red-bellied Cooter

speciesPseudemys nelsoni

Texas Cooter

speciesPseudemys texana

Peninsular Cooter

speciesPseudemys peninsularis

Coastal Plain Cooter

speciesPseudemys floridana

Rio Grande Cooter

speciesPseudemys gorzugi

Alabama Red-bellied Cooter

speciesPseudemys alabamensis

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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 39820.