Alabama map turtle [SEP] IUCN conservation status
. The genus "Graptemys" includes nine species of mostly aquatic turtles.
Geographic distribution.
The Alabama map turtle has a unique location to its habitat in the Southeast. It is endemic to the Mobile Bay drainage basin and inhabits the lotic (flowing water) areas of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and possibly Louisiana. It ranges from the Pearl River in Mississippi and Louisiana eastward to the Yellow River in Florida and Alabama.
Status.
The IUCN lists the Alabama map turtle as near threatened.
in large streams of the Missouri and Mississippi River systems, ranging from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, through the Dakotas southward to southwestern Alabama, southern and western Mississippi, and Louisiana. The false map turtle also lives in several other river systems of Southwest Louisiana and East Texas.
Conservation status.
In the Midwest, the false map turtle is a species of special interest in Ohio.
Behavior.
Map turtles of all kinds are avid baskers, spending many hours during the day in the