An easy one... 
J & S Herpetoculture
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Jeff H.
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Turtle ID
jsherps
Feb 07, 2004 09:03 PM
Replies (7)
bloomindaedalus
Feb 08, 2004 12:26 AM
duck-billed platypus?
jsherps
Feb 12, 2004 05:02 PM
>>duck-billed platypus?
lol
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Jeff H.
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HerpHelmz
Feb 11, 2004 05:35 PM
Northern or Ornate Diamondback Terrapin.
Michael Fedzen
jsherps
Feb 12, 2004 05:01 PM
>>Northern or Ornate Diamondback Terrapin.
>>Michael Fedzen
Got the Diamondback Terrapin part right.
J & S Herpetoculture
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Jeff H.
http://www.jandsherps.com
HerpHelmz
Feb 12, 2004 05:12 PM
I'm gonna guess Ornate.
jsherps
Feb 12, 2004 10:41 PM
>>I'm gonna guess Ornate.
Actually this one can throw you off a bit. It's a Concentric M. t. centrata aka Carolina DBT. It was sold to me as an "ornate" but after getting with a few experts they confirmed it was indeed a Carolina and a Concentric at that.
PS. I've also got a female, that one's a male(he's alot bigger now). They both look the same, so I'll be interested in seeing what the hatchlings look like in the next 1-3 years.
J & S Herpetoculture
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Jeff H.
http://www.jandsherps.com
bloomindaedalus
Feb 13, 2004 01:06 PM
For several years there have been at least two places (one notably in Pennsylvannia) which have been selling centratas and even nice looking northerns as "ornate" diamonback terrapins.
At first it seeemd that maybe they didn't know that there was a dbt with this name already commonly applied and that they were just using it as a generic adjective (like an "ornate slider" though that may not be the best example either ; ))
But they were contacted and told about macrospilota (which they claimed to know about) and refused to change the name. These particular turtles come up in terp cirlces all the time with people saying "how come your ornate (a macrospilota) looks so different from mine (a centrata)?"
