Eastern Box Turtle
Terrapene carolina · described by (LINNAEUS 1758)
The facts
- Scientific name
- Terrapene carolina
- First described
- (LINNAEUS 1758)
- Also called
- Eastern Box Turtle
- Class
- Reptiles (Reptilia)
- Order
- Turtles and Tortoises (Testudines)
- Family
- Emydidae
- Genus
- Terrapene
- Subspecies
- Terrapene carolina bauri TAYLOR 1895
- Terrapene carolina carolina (LINNAEUS 1758)
- Terrapene carolina major (AGASSIZ 1857)
Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.