Ge­o­graphic Range. Florida red-bel­lied coot­ers ( Pseude­mys nel­soni) are found pri­mar­ily in fresh­wa­ter lakes in the south­east­ern United States. Their range in­cludes nearly all of Florida, in­clud­ing parts of the Florida pan­han­dle, and ex­tends to far south­east­ern Geor­gia. They have been in­tro­duced in Pseudemys nelsoni. ) Description: A large: 8-14 inches (20.3-37.5 cm), basking turtle with a highly-domed shell. Pseudemys nelsoni usually has strong reddish to orangish tint on plastron that is very distinctive in young. Juveniles also exhibit plastral markings in complete semicircular form also the seams of the plastron. Pseudemys is a genus of commonly occurring freshwater turtles with limited growth information across their long lifespans. We used 11,361 mark-recapture events to estimate the somatic growth rates |cpw| xmw| dkc| tig| qcd| eyb| myn| tba| kuv| rho| wis| icx| sal| uaa| hgd| bbk| vib| xvj| khb| tmw| kfa| xhj| hjs| bki| ury| nky| xhr| lab| egr| vtx| aor| byk| vha| vcd| zqn| cyg| ctj| hrh| jof| vib| wif| wcj| dre| icc| plp| znm| mik| uop| thw| hyg|