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Blanding's Turtle Crossing (42683883282)🦎

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SpeciesEmydidae
Reptiles

🦎Blanding's turtle

Emydoidea blandingii (Holbrook, 1838)

De Amerikaanse moerasschildpad (Emydoidea blandingii) is een schildpad uit de familie moerasschildpadden (Emydidae). Het is de enige soort uit het geslacht Emydoidea. De soort werd voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door John Edwards Holbrook in 1838. Oorspronkelijk werd de wetenschappelijke naam Cistudo blandingii gebruikt.

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≈ 1/53rd of your weight
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2011.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.16 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
77 years
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Everything we know about the Blanding's turtle

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.16 kgrecord 1.16 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
77 yearsrecord 77 years · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 8
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Omnivorous
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.26 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.2 Laverage
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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 Blanding's turtle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classTestudines
  4. ›familyEmydidae
  5. ›genusEmys
  6. ›speciesEmys blandingii
Full lineage
  1. orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
  2. superfamilyTestudinoidea
  3. familyEmydidae
  4. genusEmys
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
  10. suborderCryptodira
  11. superfamilyTestudinoidea
  12. familyEmydidae
  13. genusEmys
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Amerikanische Sumpfschildkröte (de), Emydoidea blandingii (es), Tortue mouchetée (fr), amerikai mocsáriteknős (hu), ブランディングガメ (ja), Amerikaanse moerasschildpad (nl) … and 12 more languages
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