The red-striped painted turtle
There is a stripe on the carapace of the red-striped painted turtle The red pattern is the most important feature to identify the red-striped painted turtle. The red-striped painted turtle is also called the southern painted turtle. There are tiny red stripes scattered on the carapace, and the belly carapace is light yellow.
The body length of the red-striped painted turtle is about 12.7cm, with the longest record being 15.5cm. It is the smallest subspecies. Its dispersion ranges from southern Illinois and Missouri along both sides of the Mississippi River, south to Louisiana, and east to Alabama. Its characteristic is that there is a vertical red, orange or yellow stripe along the long diameter of the carapace, which is quite obvious, and it has a plain yellow plastron.
The red-striped painted turtle has no independent freckles on the back of its eyes, but white stripes. There is no stripe in the center of the head. The upper stripe on the neck is pink, the lower stripe is yellow-white, and the stripes on the hands and feet are pink. The vertebral scutes and rib scutes are in a general joint arrangement, and the back has a thicker and obvious yellow-red line. This is the most obvious feature that distinguishes Nanjin from other painted turtles. It is for this reason that Nanjin is also called the red-striped turtle or the red-backed turtle. turtle. The edge of the marginal shield is red, and it spreads downward into an erythema area. In the center of the erythema area is a gray-black freckle. This is another characteristic that distinguishes Nanjin from other painted turtles. The plastron of the southern painted turtle is yellow with black spots in some parts.
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