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  Turtle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (all living turtles belong to the crown group Chelonia), most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ribs.
Thus the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, is considered a turtle; the red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, a terrapin; and the eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, a tortoise.
The smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise of South Africa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turtle   (2146 words)

  
 Save Our Seine River Environment Inc >> Creature Feature >> Snapping Turtle
Snapping turtle necks, legs, and tails have a yellowish color and the head is dark in color.
Snapping turtles have a small growth on the front of their tongues that resembles a wriggling worm.
Snapping turtles are known to kill young and adult ducks and geese, but once again the effects are minimal.
www.saveourseine.com /creature/snappingturtle.html   (621 words)

  
 Tortoise Trust Web - Conservation and Ecology of Snapping Turtles
Snapping turtles are highly aquatic and spend most of their lives in the water, except when they crawl out on logs to sun themselves.
Snapping turtles in many cases would also not be suitable for human consumption since they carry extremely high loads of persistent environmental pollutants such as PCBs (up to 10,000 ppm were for example found in their fat, brain tissue, and testes).
Hogg DM 1975 The snapping turtles of Wye marsh.
www.tortoisetrust.org /articles/snappers.htm   (9007 words)

  
 CTTC - The Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macroclemys temminckii by Diane Levine
The largest freshwater turtle in the world, the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) is native to the southeastern region of the United States.
All snapping turtles are both scavengers and active hunters to some degree.
Any snapping turtle turned in to CTTC is repatriated to the eastern states.
www.tortoise.org /archives/macrocl.html   (780 words)

  
 Snapping Turtle
turtles are easy to recognize by their large head, powerful jaws, and long tail, which is saw-toothed along the top.
Snapping turtles are reptiles and, like all reptiles, they are cold-blooded.
Snapping turtles are long-lived and important members of the aquatic food chain as prey and predators.
www.northern.edu /natsource/REPTILES/Snappi1.htm   (879 words)

  
 Southern Research Station - Study Plan Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Little is known of the current or historical distributions of alligator snapping turtles in Texas.
The objectives of this study are to determine the distribution and status of this slow-growing, long-lived, turtle species in eastern Texas.
Surveys for alligator snapping turtles will continue for 3 to 4 years depending on extensions of Section 6 funding.
www.srs.fs.usda.gov /studyplan/viewplan.php?id=31   (248 words)

  
 Turtle S.H.E.L.L. Tortue
a registered Canadian charitable organization dedicated to turtles
The identification key to the snapping turtle family, given by
Peter Pritchard in his " Encyclopedia of turtles
www.turtleshelltortue.org /links/index.html   (26 words)

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