DIAMONDBACK TERRAPIN

BASIC FACTS ABOUT Diamondback terrapins
Named for the development round diamond on its shell, is Plutella terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) a turtle is derived from eastern and southern United States.

Diet
Diamondback terrapins consumption of fish, snails, worms, clams, crabs and marsh plants.

Limit
The diamondback terrapin is found along the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States from Cape Cod to Florida Keys and west along the Texas Gulf coast.

Behavior
The diamondback terrapin turtle is said to be the world's only that personal life in brackish water (containing some salt, but not as much as seawater), habitats such as tidal marshes, estuaries and lagoons. Most turtles hibernate during winter by burrowing into the mud swamp. Diamondback terrapins live Although tidal marshes, estuaries and lagoons, areas of their favorite nesting beaches are sandy.

Born
Mating Season: May to July.
Gestation: About 60 days.
clutch size: 8-12 eggs.

Diamondback terrapin human sex is determined by temperature - higher temperatures nesting females produce more than a lower temperature while production teams than men.

The hatchlings emerge from August to October and is completely alone. Only 1-3% of egg production put a seed, and the number of offspring surviving to adulthood is said to be similarly low.

After hatching, some children remaining in the nest in the winter, though most appear and enter the nearest water body.

Threats
The diamondback terrapin is threatened by habitat loss, road construction (terrapins are often traffic accidents) and drowning in crab traps.

Climate change is also ready to bring major changes to their habitat and freshwater turtle life cycle. By the end of this century, sea levels are expected to rise from 2.25 feet under a low emission scenario and up to 3.25 feet in the highest emission scenario.

Because of land subsidence in the Northeast, the impact of the increase will seem higher than it really is about 10 to 20%. Saltwater intrusion into brackish tidal marshes will alter its character and capable of making large areas saltier than freshwater turtles can tolerate. Storms and coastal erosion threaten nesting habitat for their favorite. And high temperatures on the nesting beach can skew the sex ratio of offspring.
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