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female three-toed box turtle

Terrapene carolina triunguis

Description:

female three toed box turtles are deferent from males because of brown eyes a convex plastron. they also have a more rounded carapace.

Notes:

found early in the morning… stopped her just long enough to get some photos. about 5 minutes later we found a male 15 feet from where we found her… the male turtle will be posted in a spotting later on.

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2 Comments

jamiewgoodspeed
jamiewgoodspeed 9 years ago

Thank you!

Maria dB
Maria dB 9 years ago

Nice spotting!

jamiewgoodspeed
Spotted by
jamiewgoodspeed

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Spotted on Jun 21, 2014
Submitted on Jun 21, 2014

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