[Cf. COOT v.1] A popular name in the Southern United States of two tortoises, the Common or Carolina Box-turtle (Cistudo carolina), and the ‘Florida Cooter’ (Chrysemys concinna), family Testudinidæ.
1884. G. Brown Goode, Fisheries of U.S., 155. Pseudemys concinna, the ‘Florida Cooter,’ is found in all the Southern States. Ibid., 158. The Carolina Box Turtle … In the southern States it is known as the ‘Pine-barren Terrapin,’ and is also called ‘Cooter’ by the negroes.
