Snapping Turtle
(Chelydra serpentina)
DESCRIPTION: 8-18 1/2" (20-47 cm). The familiar "snapper," with massive head and powerful jaws.
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"I stopped my car and put my flashers on to assist a snapping turtle mama who was in the middle of the road. She was quite large with a shell diameter of at least 12 inches! ...
Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
The largest freshwater turtle species in North Carolina.
Snappers are seen roaming far from water in spring when females are looking for nesting sites. The snapper at left appears to be digging a nest.
Snapping turtles (or snappers) are large, New World freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae. The species range from southeastern Canada, west to the Rocky Mountains and south through Mexico to Ecuador.
Common Snapping Turtle
Chelydra serpentina
photo by Jeff Humphries this photo and egg-laying photo by Jeff Davis
Species Description: The looks of this turtle perfectly fit its attitude.
Snapping Turtle
Chelydra serpentina
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Status Snapping turtles are listed as a Species of Special Concern in Minnesota due to harvesting procedures. Although a license is required, harvesting is largely unregulated.
Snapping Turtle
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large, aggressive New World freshwater turtle. The two snapping turtle species are the sole members of the family Chelydridae. Snapping turtles prefer quiet, muddy water.
Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
No photo of the Snapping Turtle available.
The Snapping Turtle is from the order Testudines. All turtles are testudines (or Chelonia). There are more than 280 different species belonging to this order.
Snapping Turtle Behaviour
No observations regarding Snapping Turtle behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Snapping Turtles ...
Snapping Turtles do get much larger than most keepers can manage. Once they get too large, they are often offered to local zoos (which have no room for these large, aggressive turtles) or they are released into the local lake or waterway.
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Subspecies I've seen:
Ecuadorian Snapping Turtle
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Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
With powerful jaws and a fearless attitude, American snapping turtles tend to feed on almost anything that
crosses their path.
Common Snapping Turtle
Chelydra serpentina
Photo by W. Anderson
Description: The snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle in North Carolina. It has a very large head, a long neck, and a long tail, which is saw-toothed along the top.
Common Snapping Turtle Species Profile
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The Common Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina serpentina, is found in fresh water bodies throughout the panhandle. It has a gray brown to brown shell with either low bumps or a jagged hind edge.
Snapping Turtle
The Snapping Turtle, family Chelydridae, is named for its powerful jaws and aggressive disposition ...
Common Snapping Turtle
Wisconsin status: common but declining
This turtle is long on tail, but short on temper. The common snapping turtle is Wisconsin's largest and heaviest turtle species.
Common snapping turtles become dormant during the winter. Quite often, they bury themselves into muddy bottoms of ponds for long periods of time.
Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
Identification: Broad gray, brown, or olive (often algae covered) carapace with jagged rear edge. Plastron small, cross shaped. Tail very long, topped with row of large triangular scales.
Alligator snapping turtle
Macroclemys temminckii
Despite the alligator snapping turtle's appearance - spiked shell, beak-like jaw, thick, scaled tail, and long, sharp claws - it doesn't generally hunt down its prey.
Alligator Snapping Turtle Range
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Type: Reptile Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 20 to 70 years Size: 26 in (66 cm) Weight: 220 lbs (100 kg) Group name: Bale or dole Protection status: Threatened ...
Alligator snapping turtle
Central American river turtle
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Alligator snapping turtles are highly aquatic, emerging from water only for nesting or rarely, basking. Ewert (1976) reported the only known observation of basking.
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Photo Credit: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE, Macroclemys temminckii (Formerly Macrochelyst.)
Order: Testudines
Family: Chelydridae (Monotypic Macroclemys species) ...
Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii)
Photos by J.D. Willson unless otherwise noted
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Reptiles; Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macroclemys temmincki) Chelydridae . Images by Wernher Krutein and PHOTOVAULTŪ ...
scutes is completely absent in the Common Snapping Turtle. If visible during defensive displays, the tongue of the Common Snapping Turtle is flat and fleshy, while that of the Alligator Snapping Turtle has a worm-like lure.
Description – Namoi River snapping turtle
Information on the Namoi River snapping turtle is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly
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Snapping Turtles
Some people believe that when a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) bites it will not let go until it thunders. This myth is of course entirely false.
Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina
This is the largest of Pennsylvania's turtles. Carapace length may reach 12 inches. It is a top level carnivore and usually lies in wait for unsuspecting prey.
Snapping turtle
Class: Reptilia
Status: IUCN: Vulnerable; CITES: Not Listed; COSEWIC: Special Concern
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Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
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Snapping Turtle - Chelydra serpentina
Description: 8 - 18 ½" (20-47 cm). Shell and body brown to rust color. Massive head. Carapace has 3 weakly keeled rows. Small plastron, unpatterned. Rear carapace has prominent tooth-like projections.
SNAPPING TURTLE
Chelydra serpentina
The common snapping turtle is the largest turtle in Ohio. Large specimens may weigh more than 35 pounds and have a carapace more than 14 inches long.
Snapping Turtle Tail. Blue Hills Reservation, Massachusetts.
As mentioned above, the outer layer of the shell is part of the skin, each scute (or plate) on the shell corresponding to a single modified scale.
The Eastern Snapping Turtle can be expected in any permanent water body throughout the state. They also use semi-permanent ponds, especially during the summer months. Nesting females are often encountered on roadways in June.
alba), barred owl (Strix varia), great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), northern harrier (Circus cyaneus), bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), eastern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), snapping turtle ...
eastern snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina serpentina)
eastern spiny softshell (Apalone spinifera spinifera)
eastern worm snake (Carphophis amoenus amoenus)
five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus)
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An extensive and complex food chain used by animals from alligators to zebra butterflies, salamanders, snakes, snapping turtles, marsh hawks and mink.
Some press reports of Terrapins have incorrectly described them as "snapping turtles", a species that look like miniature Alligators, found in the swamps of Louisiana in America, there may however be a few in the U.K. from imported pets.
Other predators include squirrels, and later on, snapping turtles. Raccoons frequent swamps and other wet areas in search of food. Once a raccoon has robbed a wood duck nest it will check any and every similar box in the area.
Snapping turtles are sought out and hunted for food or killed because of the myth that they attack everything ranging from ducks to sunbathers. The truth is that for the most part, snapping turtles are shy vegetarians and only snap in self defence.
An alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) was found in a garden of private house, Hiroshima-shi, 12 October 1999. It is said that common snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina serpentina) reproduce in Chiba Prefecture.
While most freshwater turtles have hard boney shells, three species known as softshell turtles have fleshy shells adapted for swimming. Turtle shells provide protection from predators. Snapping turtles, ...
In breeding ponds, adults fall prey northern water snakes (Nerodia s. sipedon), snapping turtles (Chelydra s. serpentina), herons, mink, and raccoons (Knox 1999).
Raccoons, skunks, feral cats and dogs, opossums, various birds, snapping turtles, and large fish prey upon hatchlings and juveniles. Raccoons also eat adults.
However, humans are the greatest threat to population survival.
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It is important to note that Manhattan now hosts only 4-5 species (Bullfrogs, Snapping turtles, Painted turtles, Red Eared Sliders, and possibly Spring Peepers).
Reptiles in the swamp include the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, cottonmouth, eastern coral snake, copper head, alligator and snapping turtle.
Adult loons rarely are eaten by other animals (except bald eagles), but their young can fall prey to skunks, raccoons, foxes, snapping turtles, northern pike, and muskies.
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This behavior allows the chicks to rest, conserve heat, and avoid predators such as large carnivorous fish, snapping turtles, gulls, eagles and crows. After a day or two, chicks do not return to the nest anymore.
While many live near water, turtles can’t breathe underwater-they hold their breath. The Cypress Swamp exhibits yellow-bellied sliders, chicken turtles, spotted turtles, river cooters and alligator snapping turtles.
Fish such as bass and carp would swallow them by the bucketful if they could, and so would water snakes. Baby alligators and crocodiles eat them before they grow big enough to attack full-grown frogs. Young snapping turtles also snap them up.
Many dogs, cats, gerbils, rats, tropical fish, one snapping turtle, and one cockatiel have become members of our family. All lived full lives and went to pet heaven & received burial in our flower beds.
Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)
Gopher tortoise (G. polyphemus)
Texas tortoise (G. berlandieri)
Wood turtles (Clemmys insculpta)
Spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata)
Red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans)
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Cooper’s hawks (Accipiter cooperii)
northern goshawks (Accipiter gentilis)
peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus)
northern harriers (Circus cyaneus)
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 See also: Turtle, Shell, Reptile, Alligator, Alligator Snapping Turtle
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