Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Ornate terrapin ORDER - TESTUDINES FAMILY - Emydidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Trachemys scripta SYNONYMS - Testudo scripta, Schoepf, 1792 and Trachemys scripta venusta, Gray REFERENCES - 4 and 1 District Reference Belize, Belize 2 Corozal, Belize 3 Orange Walk, Belize 3 Cayo, Belize 3 Toledo, Belize 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Dry season 2 Government land 3 Shipstern Nature Reserve 3 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 3 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve 3 Gallon Jug 3 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Privat 3 Bladen Nature Reserve 3 Hydrologic Association Reference Cox's Lagoon 2 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 3 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 3 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 2 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 3 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 3 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 3 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 3 References 1 King, F. W. , R. L. Blake eds. 1989. Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. ASC. Wash. DC. pp. 60-61. 2 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8 3 Meerman, J., 1994. Summary of Herpetofauna Distributions in Belize. Report to National Protected Areas Management Project. 4 Lee, Julian C. 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca, New York.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre
01/19/98