what turtle is these?

[lebron23dirk41]

please can someone let me know what turtle is the is ca n someone let me know please

 

[Dennis Hultman]

I don't know much about turtles but it looks a lot like a cooter to me. But that is just a wild guess from a turtle novice.

 

[Tim Cole]

That's

a Florida Peninsular Cooter.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Good thing I stopped at cooter. I had originally thought river cooter.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

I see the "C" shaped marking in the 2nd costal scute but without seeing the spots on the underside or the plastron, what distinguishing characteristics does a Florida Peninsular Cooter have that a Suwannee River Cooter doesn't?

 

[Tim Cole]

I got my info

from Ray Ashton Jr's "Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida, PART TWO, LIZARDS, TURTLES & CROCODILIANS"

See scanned drawing below.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

from Ray Ashton Jr's "Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida, PART TWO, LIZARDS, TURTLES & CROCODILIANS"

See scanned drawing below.

Thanks Tim.