Seven kinds of inland turtle-- wood, box, spotted, Blanding's, diamondback terrapin, bog and Plymouth redbellied-- are listed as species of special concern, threatened or endangered in the state.
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The main species found were common musk turtles ( " Sternotherus odoratus " ), diamondback terrapin ( " Malaclemys terrapin " ) and juvenile common snapping turtles ( " Chelydra serpentina " ).
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Three species are Near Threatened : the diamondback terrapin ( Maryland ), the ornate box turtle ( Kansas ), and the common box turtle ( Missouri with the three-toed subspecies, North Carolina and Tennessee with the eastern subspecies ).
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In 1932, Curley Byrd suggested that the namesake become the diamondback terrapin ( " Malaclemys terrapin " ), a species of land-dwelling turtle common throughout the state, particularly the Chesapeake Bay area where Dr . Byrd spent his early life.
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Another Baltimore team was the Federal League entry of 1914 1915, which called itself the "'Baltimore Terrapins "', after the diamondback terrapin, the state reptile of Maryland now primarily associated with the University of Maryland, College Park Memorial Stadium.
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The "'diamondback terrapin "'( " Malaclemys terrapin " ) or simply "'terrapin "', is a species of turtle native to the brackish coastal tidal marshes of the eastern and southern United States, and in Bermuda.
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The site has broken a number of stories that would later be picked up by major news organizations and grow into international headlines, including the news of the treasured Concorde aircraft's damage in Brooklyn, and the unlikely closure of a runway at JFK International Airport due to an invasion of diamondback terrapin turtles.
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Land turtles and tortoises found throughout most of the Eastern United States are the common snapping turtle, painted turtle, spotted turtle, diamondback terrapin, spiny softshell turtle, eastern mud turtle, northern red-bellied cooter, common musk turtle, eastern box turtle, and the yellow-and red-eared slider.
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Chesapeake Bay biologists consider Poplar Island's restoration to be a huge success for the diamondback terrapins, a brackish water turtle and Maryland s official state reptile . Terrapins started laying eggs on the island almost as soon as construction workers started building the sand berms and beaches, and the island now hosts the nation s largest terrapin research and propagation project.
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According to the FAA National Wildlife Strike Database, a total of 18 strikes between diamondback terrapins and civil aircraft were reported in the US from 1990 to 2007, none of which caused damage to the aircraft . On July 8, 2009, flights at John F . Kennedy Airport in New York City were delayed for up to one and a half hours as 78 diamondback terrapins had invaded one of the runways.
