Endangered
Pearl river map turtle
Graptemys pearlensis
Pearl river map turtle is a turtle in the family Emydidae — Graptemys pearlensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to United States.
The turtle
Pearl river map turtle is a turtle in the family Emydidae — Graptemys pearlensis.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi. The ringed map turtle (G. Oculifera) is also endemic to the Pearl River. The Pearl River map turtle is a emydid turtle native to the southern United States.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
In 2024, the Pearl River map turtle was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Basking survey data suggest that fewer than 22,000 individuals existed in the wild in 2020, with low or moderate resiliency estimates in all portions of the turtle's range. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) assessed that the Pearl River map turtle is threatened by habitat loss and degradation, take for collection and climate change.
On the basis of similarity of appearance to Pearl river map turtle, the USFWS also listed the macrocephalic Graptemys species G. Pulchra, G. Barbouri, G. Ernsti and G. Gibbonsi as threatened.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix III. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Pearl river 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 Pearl River map turtle, Wikidata item Q144493. 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.
