Stripe-necked Musk Turtle
Sternotherus minor
Summary 7
The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor) is a species of turtle native to the United States.
Range description 8
Sternotherus minor occurs from southwestern Virginia through eastern Tennessee and extreme western North Carolina through most of Georgia, northern peninsular and panhandle Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, and the Pearl River basin of Louisiana.
Sternotherus minorminor occurs on the Atlantic side of the Appalachians in Georgia, in Florida and southeastern Alabama.
Sternotherus minorpeltifer ranges from the Cumberland-Appalachian basin of SW Virgina, eastern Tennessee, extreme western North Carolina and NW Georgia through northern and western Alabama, eastern Mississippi and Louisiana.
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- (c) Todd Pierson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/40293555@N03/4513466864
- (c) 2011 Todd Pierson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=347788&one=T
- (c) 2011 Todd Pierson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=347789&one=T
- (c) Laurie Vitt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://animaldiversity.org/collections/contributors/laurie_vitt/Sminor/medium.jpg
- (c) Steve W. Gotte, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=herps&irn=6000433
- (c) Steve W. Gotte, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=herps&irn=6000434
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternotherus_minor
- (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/31273318
