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Three-Toed Box Turtle

Terrapene carolina triunguis

Photo by Jack Settle
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

I moved this three-toed box turtle to this side of the road, where he was facing. He closed up the front part of his plastron because I picked him up and he was frightened.

Habitat:

Found crossing a highway.

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Comments (5)

@J Crew Their plastron is yellow but it will probably still look like this. :D Thanks Fyn!
Are they yellow when the get bigger

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