Northern red-bellied cooter

Northern red-bellied cooter
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Pseudemys
Species:
P. rubriventris
Binomial name
Pseudemys rubriventris
(Le Conte, 1830)
Synonyms
  • Testudo rubriventris LeConte, 1830
  • Terrapene rubriventris Bonaparte, 1830
  • Emys irrigata Bell, 1835
  • Emys irrigita Duméril & Bibron, 1835 (ex errore)
  • Emys rubriventris Duméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Clemmys (Clemmys) rubriventris Fitzinger, 1835
  • Chrysemys rubriventris Boulenger, 1889
  • Pseudemys rubriventris Baur, 1893
  • Pseudemys rubriventris bangsi Babcock, 1937
  • Pseudemys rubriventris rubriventris Babcock, 1937
  • Chrysemys rubriventris rubriventris Weaver & Rose, 1967
  • Chrysemys rubriventris bangsi Ernst & Barbour, 1972
  • Pseudemys bangsi Collins, 1991
  • Chrysemys rubriventris fubriventris Gosławski & Hryniewicz, 1993 (ex errore)

The northern red-bellied turtle (Pseudemys rubriventris) or American red-bellied turtle is a species of turtle in the Pseudemys (cooter) genus of the family Emydidae.