Turtle And Tortoise Organizations
United States | International | CTTC Chapters
United States
- California Turtle & Tortoise Club
- Desert Tortoise Council
- Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee
- Florida Turtle Conservation Trust
- Gopher Tortoise Council
- Gulf Coast Turtle and Tortoise Society
- Mid-Atlantic Turtle and Tortoise Society, Baltimore, MD
- New York Turtle and Tortoise Society
- Reno Tur-Toise Club
- Rio Grande Turtle & Tortoise Club, New Mexico
- Sacramento Turtle and Tortoise Club
- San Diego Turtle and Tortoise Society
- Seattle Turtle and Tortoise Club
- Tortoise Group, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Turtle Conservancy
- Turtle and Tortoise Club of Florida
- Turtle and Tortoise Society of Charleston
- Turtle Survival Alliance
- World Chelonian Trust
International
- Asian Turtle Conservation Network
- ISV - International Turtle Association, Austrian Turtle Society
- British Chelonia Group
- Chelonian Research Foundation
- Dutch Turtle & Tortoise Society
- German Turtle Specialist Group
- Irish Association of Tortoise Keepers
- Tarta Club Italia
- SOPTOM, Le Village des Tortues
- Swiss Turtle and Tortoise Interest Group
- Tortoise Trust (UK)
CTTC Chapters
- Contacting CTTC Chapters and Branches
- Cen-Val Chapter (Fresno)
- Chino Valley Chapter
- Foothill Chapter (Pasadena)
- High Desert Chapter (Victorville/Apple Valley)
- Inland Empire Chapter (Riverside/San Bernardino)
- Kern County Chapter (Bakersfield)
- Low Desert Chapter (Palm Springs area)
- Merced Branch
- Orange County Chapter
- Ridgecrest Branch
- Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
- Silicon Valley Chapter
- TOOSLO Chapter (San Luis Obispo)
- Turtle & Tortoise Care Society Chapter (Long Beach)
- Valley Chapter (San Fernando Valley)
Turtle and Tortoise Genera /
Species-specific Sites
box turtles |
desert tortoise | giant tortoises |
sea turtles |
tortoises |
water turtles
Box Turtles
- Box Turtle Conservation Committee
- Eastern Box Turtle Field Observations
- Shell Coloration Development
- The Asian Box Turtles
- The Desert Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata luteola
Desert Tortoise
- A 150-year-old NEW Species of Gopherus: Gopherus morafkai
- Desert Tortoise Conservation Synopsis
- Desert Tortoise Council
- Desert Tortoise, USFWS
- Desert Tortoise, USFWS Nevada Office
- Desert Tortoise Management, Arizona Game and Fish
- Desert Tortoise Research, WERC
- The Mojave Desert Tortoise
- Desert Tortoise Ecology - Mojave DesertTortoise GATF Project
- FWS Desert Tortoise (Mojave Population) Recovery Plan, 1994 (warning! this is a 25 Mb pdf file)
- Gopherus agassizii - NatureServe
Giant Tortoises
- Aldabra Tortoise from Sea World's Animal Bytes
- Charles Darwin Research Station Restoring the Galápagos tortoises
- Galápagos Giant Tortoise, AMNH
- Seychelles Granitic Island Tortoises "Extinct" giants rediscovered!
- Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter 17, Galápagos Archipelago by C. Darwin
Sea Turtles
- Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research
- Association for the Protection of the Environment and the Marine Turtle in Southern Baja
- Decline of the Sea Turtles: Causes and Prevention (1990)
- Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative - ICAPO
- EuroTurtle, Mediterranean Sea Turtle Conservation
- Folly Beach Turtle Watch
- Goldring Marine Biology Station, Costa Rica
- Gulf of Mexico Sea Turtle Network
- Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles
- 25th International Sea Turtle Symposium Abstracts
- Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center
- Leatherback Sea Turtle, AMNH
- Leatherback.org
- Malama na Honu
- Marine Turtle Conservation Program, South Carolina
- Marine Turtle Research Group
- Marine Turtle Specialist Group-IUCN
- Marine Turtles in Australia
- Olive Ridley Satellite Tracking
- Orientation and Navigation Behavior of Sea Turtles
- Parismina Turtle Commission
- PRETOMA, Costa Rica
- Project Tamar (Brazil)
- propenisular.org - Baja California
- Qatar's Marine Turtles
- SCDNR Marine Turtle Conservation Program
- Sea Turtle Conservancy (Caribbean Conservation Corporation)
- Sea Turtle Migration-Tracking
- Sea Turtle Online Bibliography
- Seaturtle.org
- Sea Turtles Forever
- Sea Turtles, National Marine Fisheries Service
- Sea Turtle Recovery Plans (pdf format), National Marine Fisheries Service
- Sea Turtle Program, Texas A&M
- Sea Turtle Migration-Tracking Education Program, CCC
- Sea Turtles of the Paria Peninsular (English & Spanish versions)
- The Turtle Hospital
- Tortugas Marinas (Canary Islands)
- Turtle Trax - A Sea Turtle Page
- Western Pacific Sea Turtle Cooperative Research and Management Workshop
Tortoises
- Homopus Research Foundation, Homopus s. signatus and H.areolatus
- Gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus
- Ojai Sulcata Project
- The Gopher Tortoise: A Species in Decline
- Radiated Tortoise (in French)
- Tartoombria - Turtles in Umbria, Italy
- Texas Tortoise
- Tortoise Centre Waterland (Holland)
Water Turtles
- Alabama Red-belly Turtle, USFWS
- Carettochelys and Emydura, Australasian Turtles
- Mississippi Map Turtle
- Northern Redbelly Cooter (Plymouth Redbelly Turtle)
- Red-eared Slider, Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife
- Southwestern Pond Turtle Project, Kern River Preserve
- Sternotherus odoratus, Stinkpot
- Western Pond Turtle, Actinemys marmorata marmorata
- Western Pond Turtle Bibliography
- Western Pond Turtle in the Mojave River
- Western Pond Turtle Natural History
- Western Pond Turtle Project, Washington State
- Western Pond Turtle, SDMNH
- Western Swamp Tortoise, Pseudemydura umbrina
- Western Swamp Tortoise, Pseudemydura umbrina, Perth Zoo
- Yellow Mud Turtle, Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife
Turtle and Tortoise Biology
anatomy & physiology |
conservation & ecology |
fossils, evolution &
taxonomy
Turtle Anatomy and Physiology
- Anatomy of Sea Turtles
- Environmental determinants of reproductive output in the desert tortoise
- Physiology, Ecology, and Conservation of Turtles (Peter A. Meylan and Eric Ganko)
- Role of Estrogen in Turtle Sex Determination
- Temperature variation and sex determination in reptilia by Pieau, C., Girondot, M., et al.
Turtle Conservation and Ecology
- Ashton Biodiversity Research & Preservation Institute, Inc.
- Asian Scholarship Program for in-situ Chelonian Conservation
- Asian Turtle Conservation Network
- Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises
- Canada Amphibian and Reptile Population Status
- Ecology of Turtles (Peter A. Meylan and Eric Ganko)
- Indian Ocean - South East Asian Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding
- Lake Jackson Turtle Ecopassage
- Legislation regulating the release of balloons
- Oil and Sea Turtles: Biology, Planning, and Response
- Terrapin Institute
Desert Tortoise Conservation
- California Desert Managers Groups - Documents
- Center for Biological Diversity - Desert Tortoise
- Desert Tortoise Council
- Desert Tortoise Recovery Office, USFWS
- Desert Tortoise Threats Maps
- Energy Development - California Desert Coalition
- Energy Development - No On Greenpath North!
- Saving the Tortoise, CTTC
- Tortoise Consortium
Turtles and Global Climate Change
Turtle Fossils, Evolution, Taxonomy and Phylogeny
- Chelonian Research Institute
- Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, And Crocodilians. Sixth Edition (2009) By Collins and Taggart
- EMYSystem — Iverson's Checklist On-line
- Fossil Forms, Tree of Life Project
- The Fossil Turtles of Hagerman
- Relationships of Testudines to Other Amniotes
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- Introduction to Anapsida - Turtles and Their Kin – University of California Museum of Paleontology
- Introduction to Chelonia - The "Crown Group" Turtles – University of California Museum of Paleontology
- Introduction to Testudines - The Turtles - University of California Museum of Paleontology
- Online Taxonomic and Geographic Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist
- Order Testudines; The Animal Diversity Web
- Phylogeny of Turtles - Eugene S. Gaffney
- Testudines (Turtles), Tree of Life Project
- The Complete Chelonian Taxonomy List
- The TIGR Reptile Database
- Turtles of the World — the CD ROM — now on-line
- Catalogue of Life
- Wikispecies
- ZooBank - Prototype Online Registry for Zoological Nomenclature
Turtle Molecular Biology
Turtle and Tortoise Health
- Dermex Trials Against Fibropapilloma in Green Sea Turtles
- Marine Turtle Fibropapilloma Bibliography
- Mycoplasmosis and Respiratory Tract Disease in Tortoises Research Papers
- Turtle/Tortoise Health Information From CTTC
Chelonian Bibliographies
- An Annotated Bibliography of the Egyptian Tortoise, Testudo kleinmanni
- Cape Verde Sea Turtle References
- HerpLit
- Indexed Bibliography of the Herpetofauna of Florida
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle Caretta caretta and fossils in the genus Caretta
- Marine Turtle Fibropapilloma Bibliography
- Sea Turtle Documents and Publications
- Sea Turtle Online Bibliography
- Western Pond Turtle
Turtle Checklists by State or Region
United States
- CNAH State Checklists for North American Herpetofauna
- U.S. Turtle Species (CNAAR)
- US Nonindigenous Aquatic Reptiles, US Geological Survey
U.S. States and Regions
- Alabama — Checklist of Reptiles and Amphibians
- Alaska - Turtles, Alaska Dept. Fish and Game
- Arizona — Tucson Area Reptiles
- Arkansas - Reptiles of Arkansas
- California Turtles List
- Colorado Turtles
- Connecticut Turtles
- Florida - Checklist of Florida Amphibians and Reptiles
- Georgia - Reptiles of Georgia
- Idaho Reptile Checklist
- Reptiles & Amphibians of Illinois
- Indiana - Reptiles, Amphibians and Mammals of Indiana
- Iowa Herpetology
- Kansas Reptiles and Amphibians
- Kentucky — Reptiles of Kentucky
- Louisiana - Turtles of Louisiana | Rare Species Checklist
- Maine Turtle Species
- Maryland Reptiles
- Massachusetts, State Reptiles & Amphibians List
- Michigan's Turtles
- Turtles Of Minnesota
- Missouri's Turtles | Missouri's Two Box Turtles
- Nevada, Checklist of Native Reptiles
- New England States - Turtle Conservation Project
- New Hampshire Vertebrates
- New Jersey - Reptiles of New Jersey
- New Mexico Reptile and Amphibian Species List
- New York Turtles, NYSDEC
- North Carolina Turtles
- North Dakota - Turtles of North Dakota
- Ohio Reptiles
- Oklahoma, Amphibians and Reptiles of Oklahoma
- Oregon - Checklist to the Amphibians and Reptiles in Oregon
- South Carolina - Turtles Found in South Carolina
- South Dakota - Reptiles and Amphibians of South Dakota
- Texas Reptiles | Herps of Texas - Turtles
- Turtles of Virginia
- Utah - Reptiles
- Washington - Reptiles of Washington
- West Virginia, Turtles of West Virginia
- Wisconsin Herpetological Atlas
- Australia - List of Australian Turtles
- Reptiles of Baja California, SDNHM
- Nova Scotia - Turtles of Nova Scotia
- Turtles Of The World
Turtle and Tortoise Publications and Media
- Decline of the Sea Turtles: Causes and Prevention (1990)
- Fossil Turtle Newsletter
- Herpetological Conservation and Biology
- Journal of Chelonian Conservation and Biology
- Purchase, New York, Symposium Proceedings
- Thomas Bell: A Monograph of the Testudinata
- Tortoise Tracks (DTPC)
- The Tortuga Gazette
- Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter
Turtle and Tortoise Adoptions / Rescues
Food and Nutrition Sites
Raising food for your turtles; determining the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables in your turtle's diets.
- Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
- Nutrition Analysis Tool
- Oxalic Acid Content in Vegetables and Fruits | Oxalic Acid Content of Selected Vegetables
- Snail Cultivation - Heliciculture
Turtle Tourism / Seeing Turtles in the Wild
- Desert Tortoise Natural Area
- EcoTeach Foundation - Destinations
- Red Cliffs Desert Reserve
- SEE Turtles Project
- WIDECAST Best Practices for Turtle Tourism
Turtle Listserves / Internet Chat /
Mailing Lists
- CTTC Email Listserve
- CCC/Sea Turtle Survival League Email list
- CTURTLE (sea turtle list serve)
- Tortoise Consortium - Desert Tortoise Conservation
- Tortoiseforum.org
- Tortoise Forum (on Kingsnake.com)
- Tortoisefriends (UK)
- Turtle Forum (on Kingsnake.com)
- Turtle-L The Turtle Discussion List
Turtle and Tortoise Search Engines, Portals and Directories
- CTTC Links | Search CTTC Site
- Herplit Database - 50,000 herpetology literature citations
- Sea Turtle Online Bibliography
- Seaturtle.org's Links Pages
- The Turtle Portal
- Turtle Times
- Google Scholar
Turtle and Tortoise Web Pages
Sites listed below have turtles and tortoises as a major focus. There are thousands of other general reptile sites available that may provide some turtle and tortoise information. Go to General Herpetology for sites with extensive links to general reptile sites.
These web sites are listed for informational purposes only. Opinions expressed are those of the web site owners and do not necessarily represent those of the California Turtle & Tortoise Club, its staff or membership.
- A Cupulatta - La cité des Tortues (in French)
- allthesea.com - Sea Turtles
- American Tortoise Rescue
- Angonoka
- Arcadia Project, Trachemys scripta elegans (in Italian)
- Basil the Red Foot Tortoise
- Bill's Eastern Box Turtles
- Cayman Turtle Farm Ltd, Turtle Culture
- cheloniophilie.com (in French)
- Clemmys.de
- Confessions of a Turtle Wife
- CRARC - Catalonia Center for Reptile and Amphibian Rehabilitation
- Darrell Senneke's Hatchling Haven Web Page
- Dave McShaffrey's Box Turtle Observation Project
- David T. Kirkpatrick - Turtle Stuff
- Desert Tortoise, DesertUSA
- d.k. zelva turtle (Czech Republic)
- The Egyptian Tortoise
- Gea Cheonia Foundation
- Indiana Turtle Care
- Janice's Turtle Pond
- La Casa Della Testudo hermanni (in Italian)
- Mary Hopson's Turtle Puddle
- Maryland State Reptile - Diamondback Terrapin
- Mellissa Kaplan's Herp Care Site
- Misty Corton's Care Center
- MojaveMax.com
- No Turtles! - Organization against import of turtles to Europe
- Ojai Sulcata Project
- Pet Turtles and More - Blog
- Robyn's Turtle Page
- Schildkroeten - Testudo (Austrian site in German)
- Slowcoach Tortoise Site
- Soul Tones Box Turtle Pages
- Stichting Schildpad - Foundation Turtle (in Dutch)
- Sulcata Station
- Tess Cook's Box Turtle Care and Conservation Web Page
- Testudo kleinmanni, Cairo American College
- The Tlady's Hiding Place!
- Tortoise Land
- Turtle in Space, Hubble Telescope Image
- Turtle Net
- Turtle Tails
- V.A. Haecky's Turtle Information Pages
General Herpetology Sites
There are many excellent general herpetological sites. The sites below have links to many of these including local Herpetological Societies, national organizations and other potential sources of information.
- American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
- Association Reptile and Amphibian Veterinarians, ARAV
- Australian Herpetological Society
- Center for North American Herpetology (CNAH)
- Contemporary Herpetology
- Dakota Amphibian and Reptile Network
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Herpetological Conservation and Biology
- Herpetological Societies - national and international
- The Hepetologists League
- Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America
- NetVet - Reptile Home Page
- PARC, Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
- Reptile and Amphibian Captive Breeding and Longevity Records
- Society for the Study of Reptiles and Amphibians, SSAR
Salmonella Information
- 1986 Ohio Turtle-Associated Salmonellosis Case, CDC
- Pet Turtles: Cute But Contaminated with Salmonella, CDC
- Reptile-Associated Salmonellosis, 1996-1998, CDC
- Reporting Illegal Turtle Sales To FDA
- Salmonellosis, General Information
- Turtle-Associated Salmonellosis in Humans, United States, 2006-2007
Ponds and Aquaria
Climate Information
- Effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity in the United States, USDA CCSP Report
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- National Climatic Data Center Interactive site for US and global climate data.
- National Weather Service, NOAA
- Weather Underground
- Western Regional Climate Center Western US with links to world weather sites.
- World Climate: Weather, rainfall and temperature data
- www.climate-zone.com
Animals, Zoos, Collections and Studbooks
- AZA, American Zoo & Aquarium Association
- European Studbook Foundation
- EAZA, European Association of Zoos and Aquariums
- ISIS, International Species Information System
- The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum, Singapore
Conservation and Environment
Desert Conservation | Conservation & Environment
Desert Conservation
- Bureau of Land Management, California Desert District
- Desert Report
- California Desert Conservation Area planning
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Fort Irwin National Training Center Proposed Expansion
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Mojave National Preserve
- National Public Lands Grazing Campaign
- National Public Lands News
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
- Western Watersheds Project
- West Mojave Plan Information Page
General Conservation and Environment
- Audubon Society
- CITES
- Conservation International
- Conservation Maven
- Defenders of Wildlife
- EDGE of Existence Programme
- Endangered Species Coalition
- Endangered Species International
- Environment Now
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- Living On Earth, National Public Radio
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
- Sierra Club
- The Nature Conservancy
- Traffic - Monitoring the world's wildlife trade
- Western Watersheds Project
- Wildcoast
- World Wildlife Fund
Plants and Wildflowers
- CalPhotos: Plants
- The CalFlora Database
- California Native Plant Society
- Theodore Payne Foundation
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Botany (Biosciences)
Poisonous Plants
Government and Law
- National Wildlife Health Center
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service World Wide Web Site
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Home Page
- Endangered Species Home Page, U.S.F.W.S.
- PARKNET: The National Park Service
- US National Parks (NPS) Flora and Fauna Database
- USFWS Import/Export information
- Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy