Florida box turtle

Florida box turtle
Terrapene carolina bauri
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Terrapene
Species:
T. carolina
Subspecies:
T. c. bauri
Trinomial name
Terrapene carolina bauri
Taylor, 1895
Synonyms[1]
  • Terrapene bauri
    Taylor, 1895
  • Pariemys bauri
    — Cope, 1895
  • Cistudo bauri
    — Ditmars, 1907
  • Terrapene innoxia
    Hay, 1916
  • Terrapene carolina bauri
    — Carr, 1940
  • Terrapene carolina baurii
    Stubbs, 1989 (ex errore)

The Florida box turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri) is a subspecies of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae and is one of six extant subspecies of the common box turtle (T. carolina)[2]

  1. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 198. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895.
  2. ^ Dodd, C. Kenneth (2001). North American Box Turtles: A Natural History. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806135014.