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Eastern box turtle

Terrapene carolina carolina

Description:

The shell is black with yellow spots on it. It has red eyes and black skin with white spots.

Notes:

Found it in my garden. It seemed to be digging a hole to lay eggs in.

2 Species ID Suggestions

Dean4
Dean4 10 years ago
Box Turtle
Terrapene carolina carolina Eastern box turtle
Aaron_G
Aaron_G 10 years ago
Eastern box turtle
Terrapene carolina carolina Eastern box turtle


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2 Comments

mrh
mrh 10 years ago

What a great photo - and several suggestions to ID the species - yay!

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 10 years ago

What a beauty! Hopefully you'll get to see hatchlings in about 2 months. :-)

naturegirl37
Spotted by
naturegirl37

Columbia, Maryland, USA

Spotted on Jun 11, 2013
Submitted on Jun 12, 2013

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