Peninsular Cooter
Pseudemys peninsularis
- Class
- Reptile
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,426
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The peninsula cooter (Pseudemys peninsularis), sometimes referred to as the peninsular cooter, is a species of freshwater turtle in the genus Pseudemys. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the coastal plain cooter (P. floridana) when that turtle is not itself considered a subspecies of the river cooter (P.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Peninsula cooter”.