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The river cooter (Pseudemys concinna) is a species of freshwater turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to the central and eastern United States.

Geographic range

P. concinna is found from Virginia south to central Georgia, west to eastern Texas, Oklahoma, and north to southern Indiana.

Habitat

P. concinna is usually found in rivers with moderate current, as well as lakes and tidal marshes.

Subspecies

There are three subspecies which are recognized as being valid.

Pseudemys concinna concinna (LeConte, 1830) – eastern river cooter

Pseudemys concinna floridana (LeConte, 1830) – coastal plain cooter, Florida cooter – sometimes regarded as a separate species, P. floridana

Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis Carr, 1937 – Suwannee cooter – sometimes regarded as a separate species, P. suwanniensisNota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Pseudemys.

Name

The genus Pseudemys includes several species of cooters and red -bellied turtles. Pseudemys concinna is the species known as the river cooter. The name "cooter" may have come from an African word " kuta " which means " turtle " in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves.

Behavior

The river cooter basks on logs or sun -warmed rocks, and is frequently found in the company of other aquatic basking turtles (sliders and painteds) sometimes piled up on top of each other.