Coastal Plain Cooter vs. Northern Red-bellied Cooter

Both are big cooters of the coastal plain; in northeastern North Carolina some look in between (VHS). A: Plain yellow in the Coastal Plain Cooter; reddish or coral, at least at the edges in the Northern Red-bellied Cooter. B: Notched but with no point on each side; stripes on the snout not arrow-shaped in the Coastal Plain Cooter; a tooth-like point on each side of a notch; the snout stripes meet in an arrow in the Northern Red-bellied Cooter. Red-bellies often have reddish bars on the shell.

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