🦎Common snapping turtle
Tartaruga-mordedora (nome científico: Chelydra serpentina) é uma espécie de tartaruga de água doce (também chamadas de cágados) da família Chelydridae. É a única espécie do gênero Chelydra e é da mesma família da Tartaruga-aligátor. A tartaruga-mordedora habita as Américas, desde o Canadá até o Equador. É chamada de tartaruga-mordedora, devido a sua boca em forma de bico muito forte que ela usa para agarrar suas presas. É uma das maiores tartarugas de água doce, sendo a maior a Macrochelys temminckii. A Chelydra serpentina vive até os 30 anos, porém a mais velha, conhecida, viveu por 38 anos em cativeiro no zoológico, essas tartarugas podem chegar aos 50 centímetros de comprimento.
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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
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Maximum lifespan47 yearsrecord 50 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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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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