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Gulf Coast box turtle
Conservation status
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Terrapene
Species:
T. carolina
Subspecies:
T. c. major
Trinomial name
Terrapene carolina major
(Agassiz, 1857)
Synonyms[2]
  • Cistudo major Agassiz, 1857
  • Cistudo carolina var. major
    – Boulenger, 1889
  • Terrapene major – Baur, 1891
  • Toxaspis major – Cope, 1895
  • Terrapene major – M.J. Allen, 1932
  • Terrapene carolina major
    – Carr, 1940
  • Terrapene major major
    – Wilms, 1999

The Gulf Coast box turtle (Terrapene carolina major) is the largest subspecies of the common box turtle (Terrapene carolina).

  1. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 198–199. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. S2CID 87809001.

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