Chicken Turtle vs. Southern Painted Turtle

Both are small turtles of weedy swamps and oxbows along the Red River and the lower Mississippi valley. A: No stripe down the middle; a faint net of pale lines in the Chicken Turtle; a bold red, orange or yellow stripe down the middle in the Southern Painted Turtle. B: Very long and thin in the Chicken Turtle; short, with yellow stripes in the Southern Painted Turtle.

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