TURTLES AND SNAKES 



Fig. 312. Wood turtle, Clemmys insculpta: 1, 

 dorsal view showing the sculptured carapace; 2, 

 ventral side. 



usually found in fields and open woodlands. They are so 

 called because of the roughly sculptured concentric ridges on 

 each plate of the carapace and these markings alone are 

 enough to identify them (Fig. 312). Their heads and feet 

 are rusty black and brown and all of the other soft parts are 

 dull salmon red. These colors and the gray brown of the 

 carapace hide them in backgrounds of dead grasses and fallen 

 leaves. 



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