Florida Red-bellied Cooter vs. Painted Turtle

Both have yellow-striped heads and red on the shell. On a Painted Turtle the red is in bars and crescents around the rim, and the big plates are plain and smooth; on the cooter, broad reddish bars run across the side plates themselves. A grown cooter is also far bigger: 8 to 12 inches against the Painted Turtle's 4 to 7.

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