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    Species Accepted

    Glyptemys insculpta (Le Conte, 1830)

    (North American) Wood Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Glyptemys
    IUCNEndangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      (North American) Wood Turtle English
      Baot-koad Breton
      Bosbeekschildpad Dutch
      Galápago de Bosque Spanish
      Metsäkilpikonna Finnish
      Miskwaadesi Ojibwa
      Miškinis vandenvėžlis Lithuanian
      Orman kaplumbağası Turkish
      Red-legged Tortoise English
      Redleg English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      103 results
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      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      PLATT, STEVEN G.; ANDREW D. WALDE & THOMAS R. RAINWATER. (2021). GLYPTEMYS INSCULPTA (Wood Turtle). RAILROAD MORTALITY. Herpetological Review 52 (1): 126–127.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Cochran, Philip A., Brian D. Jones, Ryan Otto and Andrew P. Kinziger. (2015). Observations on the diet of the Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) in Northeastern Wisconsin and on its potential role as a seed disperser. Collinsorum 3 (2-4): 28-31.
      VanDeWalle, & Terry. (2022). The Natural History of the Snakes and Lizards of Iowa. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 384 Pp. ISBN: 978-1- 609388-37-9. [Review in HR 54 (1): 151].
      Hagani, Jason S.; Suzanne K. MaCey, John D. Foley & Chad L. Seewagen. (2021). Movement Ecology of the Imperiled Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) in a Lower Hudson River Watershed. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 20(2): 281–289.
      Tetzlaff, Sasha J. and Michael J. Ravesi. (2015). Glyptemys insculpta (wood turtle) mortality. Herpetological Review 46 (2): 243.
      Feldman, C. R. & Parham, James Ford. (2002). Molecular Phylogenetics of Emydine Turtles: Taxonomic Revision and the Evolution of Shell Kinesis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22 (3): 388-398.
      Rollinson, Njal; Robert G. Farmer, Ronald J. Brooks. (2012). Widespread reproductive variation in North American turtles: temperature, egg size and optimality. Zoology 115 (3): 160-169.

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