Glyptemys
Forest pond turtle
The American water turtles are a genus of New World pond turtles. To this genus include two types, the bog turtle and the wood turtle creek. Until a few years the two species were not attributed to the genus Clemmys, which contains only the spotted turtle as mono generic genre today.
The genus of American aquatic turtles is spread from southeast Canada to the United States. The more northern distribution area includes the forest pond turtle that lives in ponds in deciduous and mixed forests as well as in lakes, ponds, streams, marshes and wet meadows. The range of the bog turtle, which is one with a carapace length of 7.6 to 8.9 centimeters to the very small remaining representatives of the New World pond turtles, ranging as far south in the western part of the U.S. state of South Carolina and northern Georgia. The bog turtle is found mainly in upland areas and lives in shallow ponds, lakes and ponds, as well as peat moss -covered moors. The bog turtle is considered to be particularly at risk because their habitat is increasingly fragmented and this type is caught, among other things illegal for the terrarium trade.