Mississippi Mud Turtle Images

Mississippi Mud Turtle Images, Facts and Information:

Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis

• The Mississippi Mud Turtle is a small, dark-shelled turtle with a smooth, domed carapace about 3-4 inches long. Its brown-to-black shell and skin, often streaked faintly with yellow, help it blend into muddy waters. It has a blunt head, short snout, and webbed toes for swimming and burrowing in slow-moving rivers and ponds. They are a subspecies of Eastern Mud Turtles (Kinosternon subrubrum).
• Mississippi Mud Turtles are found in the southeastern United States, including Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, eastern Texas, Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and central Oklahoma.
• Mississippi Mud Turtles inhabit shallow, slow-moving waters such as ponds, swamps, marshes, and ditches with muddy bottoms and abundant aquatic vegetation.
• Mississippi Mud Turtles are omnivorous, feeding on a variety of foods including aquatic plants, insects, small fish, tadpoles, and carrion.
• Mississippi Mud Turtles typically lay 1 to 6 eggs per clutch during the reproductive season from April through July. Eggs can take about 60 to 90 days to hatch.
• A group of turtles can be referred to as a “bale,” “nest,” or “turn” of turtles.
• The lifespan of Mississippi Mud Turtles in the wild is estimated to be between 20 to 30 years.

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