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Chelydra serpentina
Hatchling turtle, brown all over with raised notches on the scutes.
Found on the road at the park. He will be marked for recapture and released in the park.
Spotted on Sep 19, 2013
Submitted on Sep 20, 2013
5 Comments
i have a pet snapping turtle.
Wonderful!
Ha! That's great. I'm a maintenance worker, mostly groundkeeping. I have a about 30 or so keys to use on a daily basis and we use a similar method. Lol
Thanks! We have a dremel tool that we use to make triangular notches in their scutes on the sides of the shell. There is a whole series of codes we use, the scutes are numbered on each side, and each turtle gets 2-3 notches in their shell. Then when we recapture them, we know which individual it is
Very nice. I love snappers. How do you mark them?