Coastal Plain Cooter vs. Florida Red-bellied Cooter

The two cooters of Florida's and south Georgia's springs, rivers and marshes. A: Yellow bars on brown in the Coastal Plain Cooter; broad red or orange bars on a dark shell in the Florida Red-bellied Cooter. B: Yellow stripes; no points on the upper jaw in the Coastal Plain Cooter; few, broad yellow stripes; a point on each side of a notched upper jaw in the Florida Red-bellied Cooter. The Florida Red-bellied's lower shell is reddish; the Coastal Plain's plain yellow. Not in Virginia.

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