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[Yvonne G]

So I'm sitting here on the computer reading about drift2sea's bout of shell rot, and a gal knocks on the door. She ordered some craw dads from Georgia and this little turtle was in with her shipment. Will I please take it. She said it was a snapping turtle, and I can see why she would make that mistake. Can anyone tell me what kind of mud turtle this is:

Its not easy to see in the picture, but there's a bit of a yellow stripe alongside the neck.

Its up for adoption if anyone is Central Calif. is interested

 

[dmarcus]

It looks like the Empress mud turtle hard to tell though..

It also could be a musk turtle..

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Why does it look like it has a prolapse?

 

[jeffbens0n]

Not 100% positive but it looks like an eastern mud turtle. Kinosternon subrubrum.

 

[Fernando]

That definitely looks like a turtle....

Sorry, I just liked the pictures. Not much help I know...

 

[drift2sea]

kind of reminds me of a snapper they used to call loggerheads.I seen them in the pearl river in missisipi.I used to visit my motherandlaw there when i was stationed at fort polk.

 

[John]

yep that be a mud turtle

 

[Yvonne G]

Thanks, Jeff: I looked up pictures of the Kinosternon subrubrum and that's what he is alrighty.

And Maggie: I think that's just some sort of defense. After I put him down all the swelling went away in an instant.

 

[John]

send him to me I'LL set him free where he belongs

 

[Yvonne G]

send him to me I'LL set him free where he belongs

Can you imagine opening up your order of crawdads and finding a little turtle in there too? Poor thing.

Do you have the mud turtles in New Jersey?

 

[John]

send him to me I'LL set him free where he belongs

Can you imagine opening up your order of crawdads and finding a little turtle in there too? Poor thing.

Do you have the mud turtles in New Jersey?

Yep find em all the time,one year when we were out with the cub scouts I caught four in about 20 minutes it was a big deal for the boys and they learned alot about them.

 

[dmmj]

I had one of those many many years ago, neat little turtle, I especially like the yellow stripe.

 

[tortoises101]

It's a stinkpot, Sternotherus odoratus.

 

[Yvonne G]

Well, now I'm really confused. It looks like both of them...odoratus and subrubrum.

 

[John]

Well, now I'm really confused. It looks like both of them...odoratus and subrubrum.

how many hinges does the plastron have?

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the yellow stripes on the head say musk but the plastron says mud

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its awfully clean to be a wild

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't really see a hinge. The plastron is just reall teeny, tiny.

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It looks like there may be a bit of a hinge across the pectoral scutes. Not much of a one, but it does "give" a bit across there.

 

[LindaF]

I'm glad they spotted the dear little turtle before they threw the crawdads onto the pot!

 

[John]

I don't really see a hinge. The plastron is just reall teeny, tiny.

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It looks like there may be a bit of a hinge across the pectoral scutes. Not much of a one, but it does "give" a bit across there.

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then it is a musk

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I don't really see a hinge. The plastron is just reall teeny, tiny.

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It looks like there may be a bit of a hinge across the pectoral scutes. Not much of a one, but it does "give" a bit across there.

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then it is a musk, a mud would have two hinges

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[jeffbens0n]

Yea I think I was wrong...definitely looks like it's a musk now that I looked it up, sorry!