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I am trying to determine the species of a tort-I couldn't get the pics here so I made a page on FLIKR http://flickr.com/turtles4friends I hope I put the address right- the site is FLIKR.COM and my page is turtles4friends-thanks

the correct address for the tort pics is www.flikr.com/photos/turtles4friends--please help identify this tort

ok-we have pics-the first link was bad-the first one was bad---www.pickle.com/sherrymote thanks for your help

Looks like some kind of box turtle. Does the plastron have like a hinge where the part by the head can close up? Maybe a 3 toed, I don't know my boxies too well.

that's the weird part-I thought box turtles as well-his habbits,food choices,and shell look boxie-except that he has no hinges on the bottom-and he has the elephant like legs-then I thought gopher but they are way different-for example-he won't eat any vegitation-at all-and his mid line on the carapace is raised with points,also where the gophers like the "sun"-he doesn't-he comes out in the AM like a box turtle

box turtle

what about the lack of hinges on the bottom?

Definitely a box turtle. The hinge develops as the animal matures. I have seen and caught babies and juvenile easterns in their native range and always have found them in or around water. I would assume that their initial protection is the water and seclusion of swamps and bogs and the hinge develops for protection on land later in life.

thanks-i feel better knowing that he is ok and had been fed well on the pellets.I have raised adults but not babies-thanks for all the help

Boxies develope the hinges as they grow. The babies can't close up.
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