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Welcome to WikiProject Turtles. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Turtles and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Mission

We will expand and organise Wikipedia's turtle articles.

Things you can do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2021-10-31 Get involved with WikiProject Turtles discussion. Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Copyedit: Green sea turtle! Expand: Emydidae, Tortoise, Spotted turtle, Glyptemys Photo: Find a photo of turtle articles needing a photo Stubs: Expand a stub article. Update: Emydidae, Tortoise Other: * Out of date turtle articles abound, mainly taxonomy issues, get a list here and scroll down for articles. Taxonomy information is available in WikiProject Turtles resources. {{Extinct turtles}} and fossil forms of both living and extinct turtles requires attention:many extinct articles require either expansion or creation and sources seems hard to come by. A list of fossil forms is being compiled so progress can be charted. Patrol: recent changes to turtle articles and check for improvements or errors.

Guidelines and things to include

WikiProject Turtles
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Emydidae
Genus:	Clemmys Ritgen, 1828
Species:	C. guttata
Binomial name
Clemmys guttata (Schneider, 1792)
Synonyms
Genus synonymy Clemmys Ritgen, 1828 Chelopus Rafinesque, 1832 Nanemys Agassiz, 1857 Melanemys Shufeldt, 1919 Species synonymy Testudo guttata Schneider, 1792 Testudo punctata Schoepff, 1792 Geoclemmys sebae Gray, 1869

For species articles, try to follow the FAs and GAs. (See also ideas from another animal Primates/Article format.) Perhaps something like the following for a general layout (adaptation is welcome of course):
Lead

• Taxonomy
• Description
• Distribution and habitat

• Population features
• Evolutionary history and fossil record

• Ecology and behavior

• Predators
• Diet
• Movement
• Life cycle

• Conservation

Very widespread species and those affected by humans to a measurable extent should also include a "Relations with humans" section. Be sure, as always, to include references.

A taxonomy box should be included. To the right is one for the Spotted turtle. The taxonomic classification of the turtle is expressed here. It can also include taxonomic synonyms, conservation status, and a range map.

Images

Pictures

Every species article should have at least one picture of the animal. Here's an example:

Range maps

Readers want each animal's range mapped. For a Featured Article, it is a requirement. An example:

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest (please sign with three tildes "~~~"). Also, try to keep the list alphabetical, thank you.

1. Borophagus (talk) Amateur palaeontologist working on articles on extinct pleurodires.
2. Crazyaboutturtles (talk) Hobbyist turtle keeper. Especially interested in making turtle knowledge available in the languages I speak: Dutch, German, English
3. D. Gordon E. Robertson (talk) – amateur naturalist and photographer
4. Faendalimas (talk) Specialist Turtle Taxonomist, have worked with side-necks, soft-shells and tortoises mostly, including fossil forms. Happy to help with nomenclatural issues.
5. Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 22:21, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
6. —innotata Interested, and thought of proposing such a project earlier. I'll put my name here for now and see if I get involved.
7. LJ (talk) 07:12, 25 December 2021 (UTC) biochemist, law student, amateur naturalist as well. enjoys fixing typos and building out existing articles.
8. Jak474 (talk)
9. Lfstevens (talk) 07:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC) Hawksbill and green sea turtles
10. Wikilouque ^(talk) Researched distribution, abundance, and morphology of map turtles for Master's degree, works in conservation, and naturalist.
11. Snow ^{let's rap} Scientist and amateur naturalist. I enjoy writing articles for taxons that are quiet little unsung heroes of the natural world. :)
12. Vidasubacuatica (talk) – amateur naturalist

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Assessment

Popular pages

• Popular pages with raw page views
• by scoring of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

Articles

Article alerts

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Categories

Subcategories of Turtles:

• Category tool: PetScan

Templates

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Resources

For biological and ecological information

• Carr, Archie (1952). Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California. Handbooks of American Natural History. Binghamton, New York: Comstock Publishing Associates.
• Ernst, Carl H.; Barbour, Roger William (1989). Turtles of the World. Washington, D.C., and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 0-87474-414-8.

• Ernst, Carl H.; Barbour, Roger William; Lovich, Jeffery E. (1994). Dutro, Nancy P. (ed.). Turtles of the United States and Canada. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-346-9.
• Ernst, Carl H.; Lovich, Jeffery E. (2009). Turtles of the United States and Canada (2 ed.). JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9121-2.

Taxonomy checklists and Conservation status

• {{cite journal| collaboration=Turtle Extinctions Working Group |author1=Rhodin, A.G.J. |author2=Thomson, S. |author3=Georgalis, G. |author4=Karl, H.-V. |author5=Danilov, I.G. |author6=Takahashi, A. |author7=de la Fuente, M.S. |author8=Bourque, J.R. |author9=Delfino M. |author10=Bour, R. |author11=Iverson, J.B. |author12=Shaffer, H.B. |author13=van Dijk, P.P. |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000e_fossil_checklist_v1_2015.pdf |title=Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: first checklist and review of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene chelonians.|journal=Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66.|doi=10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015|year=2015}}

• {{cite journal|url=http://images.turtleconservancy.org/documents/2017/crm-7-checklist-atlas-v8-2017.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status(8th Ed.)|journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=7 |accessdate=October 4, 2019|date=August 3, 2017 |last1=Rhodin | first1=Anders G.J. |last2=Inverson |first2=John B. |last3=Roger |first3=Bour |last4=Fritz |first4=Uwe |last5=Georges |first5=Arthur |last6=Shaffer |first6=H. Bradley |last7=van Dijk |first7=Peter Paul |page= |ISBN=978-1-5323-5026-9}}

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2012-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2012 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5: 000.xx. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-16. Includes Conservation status, English naming and distribution
  • Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5: 000.xx. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31.
  • Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the world, 2010 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5: 000.xx. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.
  • "Turtles of the world, 2009 checklist" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-06.
  • Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Parham, James F. (2008-12-08). "Turtles of the world, 2008 checklist" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-23.
  • "An Annotated List of Modern Turtle Terminal Taxawith Comments on Areas of Taxonomic Instability and Recent Changes (2007)" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-23.

• Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of chelonians of the world". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 149–368. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. Detailed, with synonyms and distribution.
• IUCN Red List Overview IUCN Conservation status
• Order Testudines - Turtles, The Reptile Database. Often out of date taxonomy but drilling down to the detail level does give a useful list of references.
• Testudines taxonomy ITIS (out of date) Turtle data of around 2004

Images

• Flickr search with content for commercial use
• US Fed website with great sea turtle images.
• iNaturalist image search

Common names

• Rhodin 2010 and Rhodin 2011 both have common names
• iucn red list
• Authors: C.H. Ernst, R.G.M. Altenburg & R.W. Barbour. Search turtles
• World Chelonian Trust
• austins turtle page
• iNaturalist. Lots of user provided information
• https://www.reptilefact.com/category/turtles

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• HotArticles - Shows most edited articles
• Altviewer View the alternative wording for images. Accessibility for the partially blind.
• Category Scan tool
• Reference generator. Not 100% for FA but an easy start for referencing.
• Webcitation.org Deprecated link archived 2013-02-24 at archive.today to archive online resources

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Turtles is an offshoot of WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles. We maintain close ties with our mother project.

WikiProject Science.

WikiProject Biology

WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Animals

Wikipedia:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

WikiProject Turtles

Other related WikiProjects:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Extinction

Footnotes