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Peninsula cooter

Pseudemys peninsularis

Description:

This turtle crawls out of our pond in the back yard and wanders all the way around to the front yard to dig holes to lay eggs.

Habitat:

This one lives in our pond.

Notes:

I may be wrong on the ID....

1 Species ID Suggestions

Florida Redbelly Cooter or Florida Redbelly Turtle
Pseudemys nelsoni Florida red-bellied cooter


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3 Comments

NeilDazet
NeilDazet 11 years ago

Nice Turtle Melissa! I recently created the Turtles of the Southeast U.S. mission. Check it out sometime and maybe add this turtle to it! Thx!

http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1058...

MelissaFerguson
MelissaFerguson 12 years ago

Thank you Nopayahnah!

Maria dB
Maria dB 12 years ago

nice portrait!

MelissaFerguson
Spotted by
MelissaFerguson

Melbourne, Florida, USA

Spotted on Jan 16, 2012
Submitted on Apr 2, 2012

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