family Chelydridae


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Noun1.family Chelydridae - snapping turtles
Chelydridae
reptile family - a family of reptiles
order Chelonia, order Testudinata, order Testudines, Testudinata, Testudines, Chelonia - tortoises and turtles
snapping turtle - large aggressive freshwater turtle with powerful jaws
Chelydra, genus Chelydra - snapping turtles
genus Macroclemys, Macroclemys - includes the alligator snapping turtle
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Family Chelydridae.--The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina, ISUVC #3838, 4103) was found throughout the study area in farm ponds and pools of the East Fork of White Lick Creek.
Urban herpetology II: amphibians and reptiles of the Indianapolis airport conservation lands
avivoca Viosca, bird-voiced treefrog CLASS REPTILIA Order Testudines (turtles) Family Chelydridae (snapping turtles) Chelydra serpentina Linnaeus, I common snapping turtle Macroclemys temminckii SW (Troost), alligator snapping turtle Family Kinosternidae (musk and mud turtles) Kinosternon subrubrum NW, SW (Lacepede), eastern mud turtle) Sternotherus odoratus I (Latreille), common musk turtle Family Emydidae (box and water turtles) Chrysemys picts (Schneider), I painted turtle Clemmsys guttata (Schneider), N spotted turtle Emydoidea blandingii N (Holbrook), Blanding's turtle Graptemys geographica I (LeSueur), map turtle G.
Revised checklist of the vertebrates of Indiana

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