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Last update: 2 September, 2004

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Terrapene
 
Terrapene carolina
 
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Terrapene coahuila
 
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Terrapene nelsoni
 
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Terrapene ornata (Agassiz, 1857)

  • ornata (Agassiz, 1857)
    Cistudo ornata Agassiz, 1857
    Terrapene ornata var. cimarronensis Cragin, 1894
  • luteola Smith & Ramsay, 1952
     
    • Distribution: Mexico (luteola) and USA (both).
    Literature
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    Adams, S.R. & M.C. DeCarvalho, Jr. 1984. Rates of heat exchange in the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 79A: 359-361.
    Agassiz, L. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. vol. 1. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, lii + 452 pp.
     
     
     
    Behler, J.L. & F.W. King. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 743 pp.
     
     
    Blair, W.F. 1976. Some aspects of the biology of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata. Southwest. Nat., 21: 89-104.
     
     
     
    Boulenger, G.A. 1895. On the American Box-Tortoises. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6)15(88): 330-331.
     
    Bringsøe, H. 1988. Om amerikanske æskeskildpadder. NHF, 31(3): 83-88.
    Bringsøe, H. 2000. Erfaringer fra USA med overvintring af æskeskildpadder. NHF, 43(6): 161-165.
     
    Clarke, R.F. 1950. Note son the Ornate Box Turtle. Herpetologica, 6: 54.
    Claussen, D.L., R. Lim, M. Kurz & K. Wren. 2001. The effects of slope, substrate, and temperature on the locomotion of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata. Copeia, 2002: 411-418.
    Converse, S.J. 1999. Habitat Selection and Population Response to Commercial Harvest of Nebraska Ornate Box Turtles. Unpubl. ms thesis, Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln.
    Converse, S.J., J.B. Iverson & J.A. Savidge. 2002. Activity, reproduction and overwintering behavior of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata) in the Nebraska Sandhills. Amer. Midl. Nat., 148: 416-422.
    Converse, S.J. & J.A. Savidge. 2003. Ambient Temperature, Activity, and Microhabitat Use by Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata). J. Herpetol., 37(4): 665-670.
    Curtin, C.G. 1998. Plasticity in Ornate Box Turtle Thermal Preference. J. Herpetol., 32(2): 298-301.
    Dixon, J.R. & O.W. Thornton, Jr. 1996. Geographic Distribution. Terrapene ornata ornata. Herpetol. Rev., 27(1): 31.
    Dodd, C.K., Jr. 2001. North American Box Turtles: A Natural History. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
     
    Ernst, C.H. & R.W. Barbour. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and London, 314 pp.
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    Franklin, C.J. & D. Glaze. 1998. Geographic Distribution. Terrapene ornata. Herpetol. Rev., 29(2): 109.
     
    Gatten, R.E., Jr. 1974. Effect of nutritional status on the preferred body temperature of the turtles Pseudemys scripta and Terrapene ornata. Copeia, 1974: 912-917.
    Germano, D.J. 1999. Terrapene ornata luteola. Attempted Predation. Herpetol. Rev., 30(1): 40-41.
    Germano, D.J. & P.M. Nieuwolt-Dacanay. 1999. Terrapene ornata luteola. Homing Behavior. Herpetol. Rev., 30(2): 96.
     
    Hall, J.L., R.L. Holland, H.M. Smith & D. Chiszar. 1995. Geographic Distribution. Terrapene ornata ornata. Herpetol. Rev., 26(4): 209.
    Hall, R.J., P.F.P. Henry & C.M. Bunck. 1999. Fifty-year trends in a box turtle population in Maryland. Biol. Conserv., 88: 165-172.
     
    Holland, R.L. & H.M. Smith. 1993. Geographic Distribution. Terrapene ornata ornata (ornate box turtle). Herpetol. Rev., 24(3): 108.
    Holland, R.L. & H.M. Smith. 1994. Geographic Distribution. Terrapene ornata ornata (ornate box turtle). Herpetol. Rev., 25(4): 163.
     
    Iverson, J.B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Richmond, IN: Privately printed, 363 pp.
     
    Jasser-Häger, I. & H.-D. Philippen. 2003. Schmuck- und Wüsten-Dosenschildkröten (Terrapene ornata). DATZ, 56(2): 12-15.
     
     
     
    Kolbe, J.J. 1998. Terrapene ornata ornata. Diet. Herpetol. Rev., 29(4): 235.
    Kornmann, C. 1996. Beutefang landbewohnender Sumpfschildkröten. DATZ, 49(11): 711-713.
    Langtimm, C.A. & C.K. Dodd, Jr. 1996. Estimates of abundance of box turtles (Terrapene carolina bauri) on a Florida island. Herpetologica, 52: 496-504.
    Legler, J.M. 1960. Natural history of the ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz. Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 11(10): 527-669.
     
    Lindner, J. & I. Murray. 2002. Haltung und Nachzucht der Wüsten-Dosenschildkröte (Terrapene ornata luteola Smith & Ramsay, 1925) im Freiland in New Mexico (USA). elaphe, 10(2): 47-51.
    Lodato, M.J. & T.K. Hulvershorn. 2001. The Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata, in Southern Indiana. Herpetol. Rev., 32(4): 232-233.
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    Metcalf, A.L. & E. Metcalf. 1978. An Experiment with Homing in Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz). J. Herpetol., 12(3): 411-412.
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    Nieuwolt, M.C. 1993. The ecology of movement and reproduction in the Western Box Turtle in central New Mexico. Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque.
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    Rabb, G.B. 1961. Natural history of the ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz. Copeia, 1961(1): 123-124.
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    Yancey, F.D., II. 1997. Geographic Distribution. Terrapene oranta ornata. Herpetol. Rev., 28(2): 95.