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Western Box Turtle

Educational resources on Western Box Turtle

Western Box Turtle or Terrapene ornata is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Near Threatened . IUCN Profile of the Western Box Turtle

Academic web links for the Western Box Turtle.


Eastern Box Turtle Information: ...carolina), which ranges from Texas throughout the southeast and north to Michigan and southern Massachusetts, and the western box turtle (Terrapene ornata ...
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/research/Contribute/box%20turtle/boxinfo.htm id=spl-1

Box Turtle Thermoregulation: Box Turtle Natural History: Basic Box Turtle Natural History. An Ornate (or Western) box turtle, Terrapene ornata. Photo courtesy of JD Willson. An Eastern box ...
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/websites/2004/Hester/natrlhistory.htm id=spl-2

Western Box Turtle: Western Box Turtle. Terrapene ornata. thumbnail. Context. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order ...
http://museum.utep.edu/chih/theland/animals/reptiles/terrornat.htm id=spl-3

Reptiles: Terrapene coahuila, Coahuilan Box Turtle; Tortuga de Cuartocienegas. § Terrapene ornata, Western Box Turtle; Tortuga de Adornos. § Trachemys ...
http://museum.utep.edu/chih/theland/animals/reptiles/reptiles.htm id=spl-4

Amateur Radio and electronics: Left to right and back to front: Little Turkey and Greenie western box turtle, Shelly (cast in 1986) and her shell. Shelly died in the summer of '91. ...
http://chemistry.lsu.edu/bz/bz_hobbies.html id=spl-6

Inventory: ...turtle),; 3=terrapene carolina triunguis, the three toed box turtle,; w=terrapene ornata ornata, the western box turtle,; g=terrapene ...
http://chemistry.lsu.edu/bz/tinventory/Tinventory%20sorted.htm id=spl-7

CITES: EMYDIDAE, Terrapene coahuila, Coahuila Box Turtle, I. EMYDIDAE, Terrapene nelsoni, Spotted Box Turtle, II. EMYDIDAE, Terrapene ornata, Western Box Turtle, II. ...
http://biology.uky.edu/palmer/cites.htm id=spl-8

The Pocatello Zoo: ...female. Description: This is a subspecies of the Western box turtle; characterized by a pattern of light lines on a dark plastron. ...
http://challenge.isu.edu/zooweb/virtualzoo/reptile/ornate.html id=spl-9







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