{"id":655,"date":"2018-10-04T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2025-02-20T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:58:18","slug":"turtles-and-tortoises","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/turtles-and-tortoises\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtles and Tortoises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve turtle species were selected as priority species: These priority species include five aquatic or semi-aquatic turtle species (<em>Clemmys guttata<\/em>, <em>Dermatemys mawii<\/em>, <em>Emydoidea blandingii<\/em>, <em>Glyptemys\u00a0<\/em><em>insculpta <\/em>and <em>Malaclemys terrapin<\/em>); four gopher tortoise species (<em>Gopherus agassizii<\/em>, <em>G. berlandieri<\/em>,\u00a0<em>morafkai<\/em>, and <em>G. polyphemus<\/em>); and three box turtle species (<em>Terrapene carolina<\/em>, <em>T. nelsoni <\/em>and <em>T. ornata<\/em>). Four of these species naturally occur in Canada, ten occur in the United States, and six occur in Mexico. Only <em>T. carolina <\/em>ranges into all three countries.<\/p>\n<p>The global conservation status of the priority species, as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), ranges through Critically Endangered (<em>D. mawii<\/em>); Endangered (<em>C. guttata<\/em>, <em>E. blandingii <\/em>and <em>G. insculpta<\/em>); Vulnerable (<em>G. agassizii<\/em>, <em>G. polyphemus <\/em>and <em>T. carolina<\/em>); Near Threatened (<em>M. terrapin <\/em>and <em>T. ornata<\/em>); Least Concern (<em>G. berlandieri<\/em>); and Data Deficient (<em>T. nelsoni<\/em>). <em>Gopherus morafkai <\/em>has not been assessed on the current IUCN Red List.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Turtle Taxonomy Working Group of the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group drafted provisional reassessments of some of the priority species. These reassessments indicate that at the next formal Red List update, the status of <em>G. agassizii <\/em>is likely to be changed to Critically Endangered; <em>G. Polyphemus<\/em> to Endangered; <em>G. morafkai <\/em>and <em>M. terrapin <\/em>to Vulnerable; and <em>G. berlandieri <\/em>to Near Threatened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve turtle species were selected as priority species: These priority species include five aquatic or semi-aquatic turtle species (Clemmys guttata, Dermatemys mawii, Emydoidea blandingii, Glyptemys\u00a0insculpta and Malaclemys terrapin); four gopher tortoise species (Gopherus agassizii, G. berlandieri,\u00a0morafkai, and G. polyphemus); and three box turtle species (Terrapene carolina, T. nelsoni and T. ornata). Four of these species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-species.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-655","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}