Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Spotted Turtle

Clemmys guttata

1 Species ID Suggestions

Blanding's Turtle
Emydoidea blandingii


Sign in to suggest organism ID

3 Comments

AmandaCech
AmandaCech 10 years ago

These guys are rare! I had the pleasure of releasing one onto the rail trail, because it is illegal for people to take wild life off the rail trail. It was crossing the street and a friend of mine picked it up and brought to me because he wanted to know what kind of turtle it was. There was another about this size behind the building I work at. Beautiful turtles, personally I feel lucky for coming across two in my life time and being able to have up close personal experiances with both of them!

Chris Neufeld
Chris Neufeld 10 years ago

I concur. I've worked with both blanding's and spotties and it is definitely a blanding's.

curtis9980
curtis9980 11 years ago

This is not a Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata), but rather a Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii), ID'd by the bright yellow chin and the speckled carpapace. A Spotted turtle has yellow spots on the carapace and adults do not reach the size of this juvenile picture, but rarely.

NicholeSauve
Spotted by
NicholeSauve

Michigan, USA

Spotted on May 9, 2011
Submitted on Dec 19, 2011

Related Spottings

Spotted Turtle Spotted turtles Spotted Turtle Wood Turtle

Nearby Spottings

Remnants of Beaver House I Spy. . . Canadian Geese Pitcher Plant
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team