Turtles

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View down the stream at McCormick's Creek, Indiana's oldest state park. The creek was a bi

FIELD GUIDES

Turtles

Alligator Snapping Turtle

Macroclemys temminckii

Carapace ~30 inches

State Endangered, Extirpated

Common Musk Turtle

Sternotherus odoratus

Carapace 3 - 5 inches

Common

Eastern Snapping Turtle

Chelydra serpentine serpentine

Carapace 10 – 19 inches

Common, Game Species

Hieroglyphic River Cooter

Pseudemys concinna hieroglyphica

Carapace 7 - 10 inches.

State Endangered

Ornate Box Turtle

Terrepene ornata ornata

Carapace 3 - 4 inches

State Endangered

Spotted Turtle

Clemmys guttata

Carapace 3 - 4 inches

State Endangered

Blanding’s Turtle

Emydoidea blandingii

Carapace 6 – 8 inches

State Endangered

Eastern Box Turtle

Terrapene carolina carolina

Carapace 5 - 6 inches

State Protected, Special Concern

Eastern Spiny Softshell

Apalone spinifera spinifera

Carapace 5 - 17 inches

Common

Midland Painted Turtle

Chrysemys picta marginata

Carapace 4 - 6 inches

Common

Ouachita Map Turtle

Graptemys ouachitensis

Carapace 3 – 9 inches

Uncommon

Western Painted Turtle

Chrysemys picta bellii

Carapace 4 - 9 inches

Common

Common Map Turtle

Graptemys geographica

Carapace measures 3 - 10 inches

Common

Eastern Mud Turtle

Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum

Carapace 2 - 4 inches

State Endangered

False Map Turtle

Graptemys pseudogeographica

Carapace 3 - 7 inches

Common

Midland Smooth Softshell

Apalone mutica mutica

Carapace 4 - 14 inches

Uncommon, Game Species

Red-eared Slider

Trachemys scripta elegans

Carapace 7 - 9 inches

Common

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