Common Snapping Turtle
Chelydra serpentina · Reptile
A big freshwater turtle of North America, usually 4.5 to 16 kilos, living alone in almost any permanent water with a muddy bottom, even brackish estuaries. In the water it flees and hides in the mud, but pulled out it turns vicious and its jaws can badly wound a hand. Northern turtles sleep out the winter, some staying active under the ice. It is the traditional turtle of turtle soup.
- Danger
- Dangerous if cornered
- How it is met
- Alone, by day
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Sleeps through winter
Where it lives
River, Stream, Lake, Pond, Estuary
Gives
Sources
- Common snapping turtle. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Tortue serpentine. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
- Adam T. Bosch, Chelydra serpentina (snapping turtle). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2003.
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