🦎Common snapping turtle
Die Schnappschildkröte (Chelydra serpentina), auch Amerikanische Schnappschildkröte, Nordamerikanische Schnappschildkröte oder Gemeine Schnappschildkröte genannt, ist eine Art aus der Gattung der Schnappschildkröten (Chelydra) innerhalb der Familie der Alligatorschildkröten (Chelydridae). Sie ist in ihrer Verbreitung auf Nordamerika beschränkt.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 10 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 47 years
Everything we know about the Common snapping turtle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass10 kgrecord 35 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Maximum lifespan47 yearsrecord 50 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietOmnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.5 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l10 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Common snapping turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyChelydridae
- ›genusChelydra
- ›speciesChelydra serpentina
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyChelydroidea
- familyChelydridae
- genusChelydra
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyChelydroidea
- familyChelydridae
- genusChelydra
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