Endangered
Cagle's map turtle
Graptemys caglei
Cagle's map turtle is a turtle in the family Emydidae — Graptemys caglei, recorded as Endangered and tied to United States.
Appearance
Cagle's map turtle has intricate patterns on the carapace and plastron, as well as serrated edges on the posterior of the carapace, as is typical of all map turtles.
It is smaller than most map turtles, and very sexually dimorphic, with males reaching only 4 in (10 cm) straight carapace length, while females can exceed 7 in (18 cm) in straight carapace length.
Range and habitat
The species is endemic to Texas, where it is native to the Guadalupe, San Antonio, and San Marcos Rivers.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Adult females of G. Caglei feed mainly on molluscs, but males and juveniles feed mainly on aquatic insects.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix III. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Cagle's map turtle is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Cagle's map turtle, Wikidata item Q305951. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
