Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

REPTILIA (Reptiles) TESTUDINES (Turtles) EMYDIDAE (Box and Basking Turtles)

Eastern Box Turtle
Terrapene carolina

Conservation Status:
State: None
Federal: None
NatureServe State: None - None
NatureServe National: None - None
NatureServe Global: None - None
CITES: None

Diagnosis:

Distribution:

(, Museum Voucher) (, Observation) (, Literature Record) (, iNat Record), ( Fossil)
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Occurrence Summary:
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Records
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Natural History:

Occurrence Activity:
Number of Unique Obervations (=days): 0; Range: 01 Jan to 01 Jan

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Bibliography:

1895	Taylor, W. Edgar. The box tortoises of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17(1019):573-588
1967	Milstead, William W. Fossil box turtles (Terrapene) from central North America, and box turtles of eastern Mexico. Copeia 1967(1):168-179
1970	Adler, Kraig. The influence of prehistoric man on the distribution of the box turtle. Annals of Carnegie Museum 41(9):263-280
1996	Minx, Patrick. Phylogenetic relationships among the box turtles, genus Terrapene. Herpetologica 52(4):584-597
1998	Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. A Key to Amphibians & Reptiles of the Continental United States and Canada. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 131pp.
2001	Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr. North American Box Turtles: A Natural History. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. pp.
2012	Martin, Bradley T. Molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of the American Box Turtles (Terrapene spp.). Thesis. University of Texas, Tyler, Texas. pp.
2012	Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada: Second Edition, Revised and Updated. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 152pp.
2013	Seibert, Susan and William R. Belzer. Diverse movement patterns of North America's Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina L.). Part 1: Extremes of high and low site fidelity. Reptiles & Amphibians 20(2):53-54
2017	Crother, Brian I. (editor) Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. Eighth edition. Herpetological Circulars (43):1-102
2019	Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada. Third Edition. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 192pp.
2021	Martin, Bradley T., Tyler K. Chafin, Marlis R. Douglas, John S. Placyk Jr., Roger D. Birkhead, Christopher A. Phillips, and Michael E. Douglas. The choices we make and the impacts they have: Machine learning and species delimitation in North American box turtles (Terrapene spp.) Molecular Ecology Resources 21(8):2801-2817
2021	Thomson, Robert C., Phillip Q. Spinks, and H. Bradley Shaffer. A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118(7):1-10
2024	Heeb, Alex B., Christine Light, Will F. Hanson-Regan, Gina L. Buelow, Jacob B. Heeb, Bruce R. Wolhuter, Aaron F. Ellison, Daisy R. Ellison, Daniel S. Whitney, Jacqui A. Gibson, Dan E. Carpenter, Madeline R. Smith, Shareena K. Schiffelbein, Thaniel P Bentz, Beck S. Lister, Emily N. Melgren, Valerie N. Vester, Alan J. Bartels, Hannah L. Clark, Cailin M. Vermillion, E. O. Jones, Laura C. Priest, Elizabeth I. Houchin, Karoline W. Weston, Lisa M. Prowant, and Holly L. Lackey. Turtle races: A threat to wild turtle populations? Herpetological Review 55(1):11-18

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