Endangered
Coahuilan box turtle
Terrapene coahuila
Coahuilan box turtle is a turtle in the family Emydidae — Terrapene coahuila, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The body of Coahuilan box turtle is adapted for spending long periods of time in the water, and the shell is often covered in algae. The skin is dark, usually dark brown and dark gray, but some areas can appear completely black.
Range and habitat
Coahuilan box turtle is endemic to the vicinity of Cuatro Ciénegas in Coahuila, Mexico. During the rainy season, Coahuilan box turtles may leave their home range and travel throughout the desert.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
It will for instance eat fly larvae, dragonfly nymphs, beetles, true bugs, spiders, reptiles, fish, crayfish, mushrooms, and plant matter (such as Chara and Eleocharis spp.) in the wild. Researchers have therefore suggested that it developed from a nonaquatic species in order to survive in the desert springs of Cuatro Ciénegas.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Coahuilan box 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 Coahuilan box turtle, Wikidata item Q1104186. 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.
