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large head, smooth shell, large forelegs
Common Snapping Turtle - Chelydra serpentina
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ridged shell, even larger head, big pointed snout with hook
Alligator Snapping Turtle - Macrochelys temminickii
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brownish shell with olive green body, light indistinct squiggly lines on head; can close up completely inside shell.
Eastern Mud Turtle - Kinosternon subrurum
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- Enormous, wide head that looks almost swollen (usually males)
- Head speckled mottled on top w/ distinct squiggly lines on sides
- cannot draw body into shell entirely
Loggerhead Musk Turtle - Sternotherus minor
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- distinctive black head w/ yellow stripes
- small
Stinkpot (Common Musk Turtle) - Sternotherus odoratus
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- Distinctive stripe down middle of shell
- dark-headed but w/ yellowish stripes/blotching & reddish markings on shell, tail, & sometimes legs and neck
- medium-sized
Southern Painted Turtle - Chrysemys dorsalis
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- dark-headed but w/ yellowish stripes/blotching & reddish markings on shell, tail, & sometimes legs and neck
- medium-sized
Northern Painted Turtle - Chrysemys picta
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dark/black with two distinctive orange blotches on side of face (larger towards top of head, smaller below)
Bog Turtle - Glyptemys muhlenbergii
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- extensive distinct striping and whorls on head
- females significantly larger than males w/ bigger heads
- small orange circles against green on shells
- distinctive white eye w/ black bar
- flattened shell
Common Map Turtle - Graptemys geographica
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- flattened, "saw-back" shell
- distinctive lines and whorls on head and legs
- distinctive large (usually rectangular) spot on head behind eye
- Ouachita Map Turtle - Graptemys ouachitensis
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- flattened, "saw-back" shell
- distinctive lines and whorls on head and legs
- distinctive "comma" marking on head
False Map Turtle - Graptemys pseudogeographica
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- flattened, smooth shell with distinct yellow markings (resemble parentheses on edges)
- distinctive broad lines on head
Eastern River Cooter - Pseudomys concinna
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- flattened, smooth shell with distinctive yellow markings on shell, usually in an "7" or "L" shape
- distinctive red blotch on side of head
- dark black spots or almost pure black on underside
Slider - Trachemys scripta
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Eastern Box Turtle - Terrapene carolina
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Smooth Softshell Turtle - Apalone mutica
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Spiny Softshell Turtle - Apalone spinifera
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