It is a baby under three inches long.
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Can anyone tell me what kind of turtle this is?
anson
Jan 22, 2004 04:39 PM
Replies (6)
Katrina
Jan 22, 2004 09:15 PM
Oh, map turtle. I'd have to dig out the field guides to know which species.
Katrina
Batagur
Jan 23, 2004 12:20 PM
It's a Ouachita map turtle (Graptemys ouachitensis ouachitensis).
erico
Jan 23, 2004 04:01 PM
The Ouachita Map has somewhat wider, squarer and shorter blotches behind the eye. Miss. Map is sometime classified as Graptemy pseudogeograhica kohni
bloomindaedalus
Jan 24, 2004 02:38 AM
Well pretty hard to say really as the defining characteristic is the length of thr stripe not its width. While it seems not to be the general case, there are certainly ouachitas with thin stripes. We really need to see the side of the head.
But in either case the care is the same.
bloomindaedalus
Jan 24, 2004 02:43 AM
need edit button!
The defining characteristic is the length of the neck stripes (not the potentially thick one)they go to eye in ouachitas and not in mississippis.
At least this is what i read in the formal descriptions.
erico
Jan 26, 2004 04:11 PM
I'm going by my personal observations over the years. The pinkish tinge to the reticulations on the carapace and the white irides (eyegrounds) without a cross stripe indicates it is either kohni or oachitensis, but definitely not pseudogeograhica. I would still bet on kohni.
