42 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



FAMILY : CHELYDRIDAE 

 GENUS: MACROCHELYS. Gray. 



MACROCHELYS TEMMINCKII (Holbrook) Gray (Af. lacertina) 



Alligator Snapper 



Type locality: Mississippi river and tributaries. 



General distribution : Texas east to southeastern 

 Georgia and northern Florida, north in the Mississippi 

 b^sin to northern Missouri. 



Alabama records: Mobile Bay. 



GENUS: CHELYDRA, Schweigger. 



CHELYDRA SERPENTINA (Linne) Schweigger 

 Common Snapping Turtle 



Type locality: "Warmer regions." 

 General distribution : Eastern North America. 

 Alabama records : Etov/ah, Tuscaloosa, Barbour and 

 Mobile Counties. 



GENUS: TERRAPENE, Merrem. 



TERRAPENE CAROLINA CAROLINA (Linne) Bell 



{Cistudo Carolina) 



Common Box Turtle 



Type locality: Carolina. 



General distribution : Eastern United States. 

 Alabama records: St. Clair, Tuscaloosa and Mobile 

 counties. 



TERRAPENE CAROLINA TRIUNGUIS (Agassiz) 



Stejneger & Barbour (Cistudo trrioigids Agassiz) 



Three-toed Box Turtle 



Type locality : New Orleans, Louisiana. 



General distribution : Coastal Plain of the Gulf of 

 Mexico, west into Oklahoma and southern Texas and 

 north in the Mississippi Valley to Missouri. 



Alabama records : None. 



*I saw a small (presumably young) dead specimen of what is 

 probably this species in the Tennessee River bottoms in Lime- 

 stone County, opposite Decatur, April 18, 1922. R. M. H. 



