Endangered
Alabama red-bellied cooter
Pseudemys alabamensis
The Alabama red-bellied cooter or Alabama red-bellied turtle, is native to Alabama.
The turtle
Alabama red-bellied cooter is a turtle in the family Emydidae — Pseudemys alabamensis.
Range and habitat
The Alabama red-bellied cooter or Alabama red-bellied turtle, is native to Alabama.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It feeds on aquatic vegetation and can be found sunning itself on logs. When the turtles nest in late July, hatchlings may overwinter in the nest and emerge the following spring.
In crisis
Alabama red-bellied cooter 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 Alabama red-bellied cooter, Wikidata item Q597376. 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.
