Bog Turtle vs. Spotted Turtle

Both are small turtles of wet meadows, fens and bogs. A Spotted Turtle's black shell is sprinkled with round yellow spots, and its head is spotted too. A Bog Turtle's shell is plain brown to black, sometimes with paler rays in each plate but never round spots, and it has a large orange or yellow blotch on each side of the head.

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