Turtles Testudines
Total number of world species: 328

Big Bend Slider Trachemys gaigeae
Turtle Bay, Socorro, Socorro County, New Mexico, April 2014

Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina
Riverbend Natural Area, Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, July 2014

Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata
City of Rocks State Park, Grant County, New Mexico, August 2011,

Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta
Paeseo del Rio, Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Sierra County, New Mexico, April 2014

Red-eared Slider Trachemys scripta
Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, May 2014

Spiny Softshell Turtle Apalone spinifera
Hornsby Bend, near Austin, Travis County, Texas, May 2009

Texas River Cooter Pseudemys texana
South Llano River State Park, Kimble County, Texas, April 2012

Yellow Mud Turtle Kinosternon flavescens
Granite Gap, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, July 2011