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male three-toed box turtle

Terrapene carolina triunguis

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38.6338, -90.2417

Field Notes

Description:

male box turtles can be identified because of their sloping carapace red/ orange eyes and concave back end of their plastron ( bottom part of shell)

Notes:

found probably looking for the female I found earlier in the same area.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
jamiewgoodspeed
Ya I saw lots over the time there. This was, however the only male.
Maria dB
Nice that you saw both a male and a female!

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Midwest Reptile Study
Photographed
PublishedJune 21, 2014

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