Animals / Reptile

Common box turtle

Terrapene carolina · Emydidae

The common box turtle is a species of box turtle with five existing subspecies. It is found throughout the Eastern United States and Mexico. The box turtle has a distinctive hinged lower shell that allows it to completely enclose itself, like a box.

Where the Common box turtle lives

Recorded in United States of America (North America).

Most records fall in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

See the Common box turtle’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Vulnerable (VU). At risk: it could become endangered. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 79,928 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.