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Three-striped Mud Turtle
Kinosternon baurii
29.0699, -82.1908
Field Notes
Description:
From Florida Fish and Wildlife website: "The striped mud turtle is a small aquatic turtle with an oval shaped shell that can reach four inches in length (10 centimeters). This species has a brown upper shell (carapace) with three stripes that may not be visible, and a rust colored lower shell (plastron). Striped mud turtles have large heads that usually have two small yellow stripes on each side (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001)."
Habitat:
This turtle was spotted nestled under a log by one of the naturalists in my Master Naturalist Class. Sharp eyes!
Notes:
Federal Status: Not Listed
FL Status: State-designatedThreatened (Lower Keys population only)
FNAI Ranks: G5T2Q/S2 (Globally: Demonstrably Secure, Sub sp. Imperiled [subspecies classification questioned]/State: Imperiled)
IUCN Status: LC (Least Concern)
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