Chicken Turtle ²

The Chicken Turtle is an uncommon turtle in ponds at the Arboretum. While similar in appearance to the common Red-eared Slider, this species has a much longer neck - the neck is as long as the whole body. This dark olive turtle has yellow stripes on its face and one large yellow stripe on each leg. It also has a pale, net-like pattern on its smooth, pear-shaped shell.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Gabriel Kamener, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/12074203@N06/3415712539
2. Adapted by hancnaturalist from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirochelys_reticularia

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• The Reptile Database
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