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This is actually a striped mud turtle, Kinosternon baurii. Mud and musk turtles can be tricky to tell apart, but the prominent hinge on mud turtles is on the rear half of the plastron (mud turtles actually have two hinges), whereas it's in the front half on musk turtles (which only have one hinge).
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