Maryland Biodiversity Project - Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata)

Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Agassiz, 1857

Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Class Reptilia > Order Testudines > Family Emydidae > Genus Terrapene Ornate Box Turtle - Terrapene ornata - https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/view/22988

This central U.S. is not established in Maryland. Any Maryland records are currently presumed to be escaped or released pets.

There is 1 record in the project database.

Ornate Box Turtle in Maryland (Date obscured). (c) akorman60, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by akorman60 via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

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