Please Help Identify these turtles

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AJ95020

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I just adopted two aquatic turtles. Been googling for a few hours and still no luck can any one tell me what either one of these turtles are.

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The one looks like a Barbours, but definitely a Map turtle (the one with the black dorsal ridge.) The other looks like maybe a big headed musk turtle, or giant musk? I dunno, I'll do some googling too.

Loggerhead Musk turtle!! That is the one I was thinking of!
 

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The picture's so small, but my first impression on the one on the left was either a pig nosed turtle or a soft shelled turtle.

AJ95020 said:
I just adopted two aquatic turtles. Been googling for a few hours and still no luck can any one tell me what either one of these turtles are.

Hi AJ95020:

Welcome to the forum!!
 

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We are going to need better pictures to ID your turtles. Getting closer with some better lighting (or darker so the flash will work). Pictures of the carapace (top shell), plastron (bottom shell) and heads will help greatly.
But the smaller one is a Map turtle (just can't tell species). The larger one is a musk turtle, but not a Loggerhead as it's got three keels on the carapace.

Danny
 

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" Been googling for hours" just sounds so wrong. :)
 

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In the picture it looks like a fly river turtle. Left one does anyways.
 
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