Talk:Spotted turtle

TCO reccs

I read through the sections you asked me to. Here's some reccs. I don't mind doing the work (you've seen that) but wondered if you might get more out of doing the revisions yourself. So:

Description

• Group like with like. We should have a para on the spots all on it's own. Should have a shell para. and then maybe a para for the skin and other parts of the body. there's even a sentence saying it's small, but the dimensions are noted a sentence later.

Distribution:

• It's confusing when you discuss the range north to south and mention Quebec (as I looked on East Coast). I would say "on the east coast, blabla". then "in the Great Lakes blabla". Organize the content that way.

• Let's go with one header for now, ditch Pop features. You should still know what each para is about though. Like point to it and say range, habitat, etc. Can be more than three paras, just know what each is.

• Would call the whole thing Distribution (cut and habitat)

Done.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 04:23, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

• Insead of not self-sustaining, just say declining. (I was waiting to hear that man was stocking them or something.)

Well, I'm not sure on this one. I think the source was saying that, although there are many individual populations, many of them will be quick to dry up because they don't have enough members to sustain themselves.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 04:26, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

• Stuff about other turtles, probaly fits with habitat unless you can get more into some sort of interaction of the species. Also snapping turtle is not a pond turtle. Also, any more content than a list? Like info on how they compete or something?

This was just a preliminary list, content about specific interactions to be added. And I changed "pond turtle" to just "turtle" because of snapper, I would have never caught that. --NYMFan69-86 (talk) 04:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Diet:

• say it eats carrion (cut the duck, cut the alive or dead). Just list all the stuff it hunts and kills. And then say in addition it eats various carrion (if you want to list the duck and fish and stuff there feel free or maybe make a comment that it).

• I'm betting the tadpoles are frogs and bullfrogs. would just say so. Or just say tadpoles in general.

Just tadpoles, better flow.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 04:29, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

• I assume in terms of it's hunting it goes after any small fish. Would just say that instead of "five genera".

I compromised here. Can't support that it goes after any small fish. Good catch though, Ernst is a very specific man when it comes to his turtle observations.  ;-)--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 04:31, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

• we should point out and source that it eats in water because it lacks a tongue. (if that's right).

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Otherwise, it's decent start!TCO (talk) 04:55, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks TCO! You rock! Let me get these, work will be slow as real life is a wikihindrence. But again, you're awesome.  :-) NYMFan69-86 (talk) 03:35, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Class

¿Reptilia? I found in all sites Sauropsida. --Rwheimle (talk) 10:06, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

I checked a bunch of sites and they are saying Reptilia, furthermore, Sauropsida is considered equivalent to Reptilia. LJ (talk) 06:46, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Taxonomy

The article in several places mentions this is the only extant species in Clemmys but not once mentions that many taxonomists still classify the Spotted Turtle, Western Pond Turtle and the European Pond Turtle in Emys.

There really needs to be a taxonomical note on that, the three genera (Emys, Clemmys, Actinemys) when they aren't all in Emys are clearly very close. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.94.139.106 (talk) 07:41, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

EDIT - okay a little confusion, it is Blandings I was thinking about often included with Western Pond and European Pond in Emys - confusion is because Western Pond formerly was also in Clemmys (and is still in Clemmys in a lot of literature) but it is closely related to Blandings not Spotted - Blandings, Western Pond and European seem to form a clade distinct from Spotted and those three are either one genus or each distinct genus.

There probably still should be a note on species like Western Pond formerly being included in Clemmys and still in some documents (like http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01528/ ) if the Spotted page is going to repeatedly state that it is only species in the genus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.94.139.106 (talk) 10:12, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

I think this is clarified now in the article, so thanks! LJ (talk) 06:42, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Evaluating an Article

In the concentration see from it did not have that much information on why it is an endangered species. Specify whether it was only because of human or is there another cause like predators.

The statistic information on how the global warming may drastically impact the population, sex ratio. The citation did not give me much information either.Sotojandres (talk) 20:18, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Trying my best to fill out the conservation section. LJ (talk) 06:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

References