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Virginia Turtle Identification Guide | Virginia Turtle Measurements

Scientific name (Common name)
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VA Distribution Photos
Eastern spiny softshell (Apalone spinifer spinifer)0014.jpg (170944 bytes)

Clemmys guttata (Spotted Turtle)
 * State Threatened *
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Glyptemys insculpta (Wood Turtle)
 * State Threatened *
Glyptemys muhlenbergii (Bog Turtle)
 * Federal Threatened State Endangered *
Eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum).jpg (93880 bytes)
Sea Turtles
   
Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle)
 * Federal Threatened State Endangered *
Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle)
 * Federal Threatened State Threatened *
Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle)
 * Federal Threatened State Endangered *
Eretmochelys imbricata  (Hawksbill Sea Turtle)
 * Federal Endangered State Endangered *
 
Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle)
 * Federal Endangered State Endangered *