Pseudemys texana (Texas River Cooter)
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TEXAS
RIVER COOTER
Pseudemys texana Baur, 1893
STATUS: Uncommon
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Johnson
Co.: .1 mi N of county
Rd. 1108 at Mill Creek; Tarrant
Co.: Ft. Worth Nature
Center, federal fish hatcheries below Lake Worth, and the Euless area
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Hood,
Johnson, Parker, Somervell, and Tarrant
HABITAT: The Brazos and Trinity River
Bottoms
COMMENTS: Local
observers may have misidentified the two species of cooters in this area
of the state.
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