Plymouth red-bellied turtle | |
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Plymouth red-bellied turtle on Long Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Emydidae |
Genus: | Pseudemys |
Species: | P. rubriventris |
Population: | Plymouth red-bellied turtle |
Synonyms[4] | |
Pseudemys rubriventris subsp. bangsi Babcock, 1937 |
The Plymouth red-bellied turtle, sometimes called the Plymouth red-bellied cooter, is a disjunct population of northern red-bellied cooter (Pseudemys rubriventris) endemic to Massachusetts.