Pseudemys

species of freshwater turtle

species of turtle

Pseudemys is a genus of large, herbivorous, freshwater turtles of the eastern United States and adjacent northeast Mexico. They are often referred to as cooters, which stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by enslaved people from Africa.

Alabama red-bellied cooter

species of reptile

Peninsula cooter

Texas river cooter

Rio Grande cooter

Coastal plain cooter

subspecies of freshwater turtle