🦎Diamondback terrapin
O cágado-diamante (Malaclemys terrapin), é uma espécie de cágado nativa do leste e do sul dos Estados Unidos e das Bermudas. É uma das tartarugas com maior distribuição geográfica da América do Norte, com presença indo do sul, nas Florida Keys, até o norte, em Cabo Cod. O nome terrapin tem origem algoquina e significa "pequena tartaruga", e era utilizado para se referir apenas a essa espécie, porém seu uso foi estendido para outras tartarugas pequenas que habitam ambientes de água salobra, como mangues.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 0.72 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 40 years
Everything we know about the Diamondback terrapin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.72 kgrecord 1.6 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: low
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan40 yearsmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation84 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: low
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Litter sizeabout 9AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietOmnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.19 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.19 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
- Male0.13 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l0.7 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 Diamondback terrapin yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classTestudines
- ›familyEmydidae
- ›genusMalaclemys
- ›speciesMalaclemys terrapin
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyEmydidae
- genusMalaclemys
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- orderTurtles & tortoises · Testudines
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyEmydidae
- genusMalaclemys
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