Alligator snapping turtle
Macrochelys temminckii
Visual Appearance
A tiny ankylosaurus.
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Chelydridae
Size
Length: 35 to 80.8 cm
Weight: 8.4 to 80 kg
Environment
Where Found: It is found from the Florida Panhandle west to East Texas, north to southeastern Kansas, Missouri, southeastern Iowa, western Illinois, southern Indiana, western Kentucky, Louisiana, and western Tennessee
Habitat: They are generally only found in bodies of water that flow into the Gulf of Mexico and usually do not occur in isolated wetlands or ponds
Diet: It relies on both live food caught by itself and dead organisms which it scavenges
Factoids
- They have eyelashes.
- They can eat almost any animal in the area.
- It is an invasive species.