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Intermediate Musk Turtle, Sternotherus intermedius

Reptilia · Testudines

Sternotherus intermediusScott, Glenn, Rissler, 2017

Intermediate Musk Turtle

Photograph by Wes Anderson, CC BY, via iNaturalist

A water-living turtle from the Nearctic region.

ReptiliaTestudinesKinosternidaeSternotherus

Lives up to
23.9years
Lives
Aquatic
Red List
Data Deficient

What is known

14 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.

Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.

Standing in the world

Conservation status
Data Deficient

The animal itself

Pupil
Round
Venomous
No
Fangs
None
Longest recorded life
23.9years

How it lives

Where it lives
Aquatic
Habitat
Wetlands
Region
Nearctic

Breeding

Reproduction
Oviparous
Clutches in a year
3per year

Naming and history

Subspecies
No
Described by
Scott, Glenn, Rissler
Moved to another genus · since it was first described
No
Described in
2017

What nobody knows

These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.

  • Still living
  • Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
  • Length snout to vent · adult female mean
  • Length snout to vent · adult male mean
  • Length snout to vent · adult mean
  • Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
  • Female length · mean, nose to tail
  • Length nose to tail · adult male mean
  • Length nose to tail · adult mean
  • Shell length, front to back · greatest recorded
  • Largest female · snout to vent
  • Largest male · snout to vent
  • Largest female · shell length
  • Largest male · shell length
  • Hatchling length · snout to vent
  • Hatchling length · nose to tail
  • Largest juvenile · snout to vent
  • Largest juvenile · shell length
  • Egg length
  • Egg width
  • Body mass · greatest
  • Body mass · a typical adult
  • Body mass · adult female, mean
  • Body mass at hatching
  • Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
  • Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
  • Diet
  • Eats arthropods
  • Eats vertebrates
  • Eats plant matter
  • How it hunts
  • Active
  • How the young develop
  • Gestation or incubation
  • Average clutch
  • Smallest clutch recorded
  • Largest clutch recorded
  • Mean clutch · smallest reported
  • Mean clutch · largest reported
  • Clutches a year · fewest
  • Clutches a year · most
  • First breeds from · youngest recorded
  • First breeds by · oldest recorded
  • Hatchling length · smallest recorded
  • Hatchling length · largest recorded
  • Age at first breeding · female
  • Mature from · youngest recorded
  • Mature by · oldest recorded
  • Size at maturity · smallest recorded
  • Size at maturity · largest recorded
  • Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
  • Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
  • Limbs
  • Colour on the back
  • Pattern on the back
  • Sex decided by
  • Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
  • Population trend
  • Red List criteria
  • Biome
  • Active season · shortest recorded
  • Active season · longest recorded
  • Density · lowest recorded
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  • Home range · largest recorded
  • Suborder
  • Infraorder
  • Type locality
  • Active in
  • Mainland or island
  • Lowest it lives · above sea level
  • Highest it lives · above sea level
  • Range size

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This species as JSON · the whole dataset

Cite this page

The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Sternotherus intermedius. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/sternotherus-intermedius

@misc{sternotherus_intermedius_2026,
  title  = {Sternotherus intermedius},
  author = {{The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/sternotherus-intermedius}
}

Sources

  1. Oskyrko, O. et al. (2024). ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data. Used under CC BY 4.0.
  2. GBIF Secretariat. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Used under CC BY 4.0. Common names aggregated from constituent checklists.
  3. Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.