Briana Delgado
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Someone is trying to sell me a turtle but I want to know what kind it is first before buying! Here are some pictures!
Identify a turtle
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That's some sort of mud or musk turtle.
@AnthonyP @Markw84
Sorry - haven't seen this as didn't get alerts while website access what down the past few days.
Has to be a stinkpot. Sternotherus oderatus The pictures are dark and can't see head/neck striping, but with the overall look and seperations in the plastral scutes, has to be sternotherus. With the absence of keel, dark coloring, and pointy nose - odoratus.
Has to be a stinkpot. Sternotherus oderatus The pictures are dark and can't see head/neck striping, but with the overall look and seperations in the plastral scutes, has to be sternotherus. With the absence of keel, dark coloring, and pointy nose - odoratus.
It's a little mud turtle, it's full grown too. I'm not familiar with proper or specific names but I used to catch them all the time in the creeks of east Texas as a good, as hatchlings their the size of a coke bottle lid. Not sure of regulations on selling them.
No mud turtle has wide seams between plastral scutes. With that reduced plastron it is a musk turtle for sure.
An old common musk turtle, or stinkpot. Sternotherus odoratus
