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1.  It is unlawful to take, attempt to take, sell or possess any turtle egg or turtle or parts thereof from the wild in this state, to include public

     and private waters, for commercial purposes.

1.  It is unlawful to collect or offer for sale or trade any box turtle without special permit. Possession limit of one.

2.  Unlawful to collect, harvest, possess, offer for sale or trade any common snapper or softshell with a carapace length less than 8 inches.

     Two unregulated turtles per day may be taken for personal use but cannot be sold, traded etc. Turtles may be taken by hand, dip net or 

     hook and line. This includes both public and private waters.

1.  Unlawful to take, capture, kill, or attempt to take, capture or kill, to possess, sell, or trade, or offer to sell or trade without a special

     permit, Mississippi DBT, Gopher Tortoise, Alabama Map, Alabama Red Belly, Alligator Snapper, Barbour’s Map or Escanbia Bay Map, Black

     Knobbed Sawback & Flattened Musk Turtle.


2.  Any native unprotected species, as well as non-native species, may be kept as pets. However, No person, firm or corporation shall import

     or cause to be imported, any nonindigenous turtle species for the purpose of propagation.

COMMERCIAL

TAKING FROM THE WILD

POSSESSION

SUMMARY OF ALABAMA TURTLE LAWS

Florida Softshell Apalone ferox
Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus
Gulf Coast Smooth Softshell
Apalone mutica calvata
Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell
Apalone spinifera aspera
Hieroglyphic River Cooter
Pseudemys concinna hieroglyphica
Loggerhead Musk Turtle
Sternotherus minor minor
Midland Painted Turtle
Chrysemys picta marginata
Midland Smooth Softshell
Apalone mutica mutica
Mississippi Diamondback Terrapin Malaclemys terrapin pileata
Ouachita Map Turtle
Graptemys ouachitensis ouachitensis
Razorback Musk Turtle
Sternotherus carinatus
Red-Eared Slider
Trachemys scripta elegans
So. Black-knobbed Map Turtle
Graptemys nigrinoda delticola
Southern Painted Turtle
Chrysemys picta dorsalis
Stripeneck Musk Turtle
Sternotherus minor peltifer
Three-toed Box Turtle
Terrapene carolina triunguis
Yellow-Bellied Slider
Trachemys scripta scripta

Alabama Map Turtle Graptemys pulchra
Alligator Snapping Turtle Macroclemys temmincki
Alabama Red-Belly Turtle
Pseudemys alabamensis
Barbour's Map Turtle
Graptemys barbouri
Black-Knobbed Map Turtle Graptemys nigrinoda nigrinoda
Common Map Turtle
Graptemys geographica
Common Musk Turtle (Stinkpot)
Sternotherus odoratus
Common Snapping Turtle
Chelydra serpentina serpentina
Eastern Box Turtle
Terrapene carolina carolina
Eastern Mud Turtle
Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum
Eastern Chicken Turtle
Deirochelys reticularia reticularia
Eastern Painted Turtle
Chrysemys picta picta
Eastern River Cooter
Pseudemys concinna concinna
Eastern Spiny Softshell
Apalone spinifera spinifera
Ernst's Map Turtle
Graptemys ernsti
Flattened Musk Turtle
Sternotherus depressus
Florida Cooter
Pseudemys floridana floridana

NATIVE SPECIES