Texas Cooter vs. Rio Grande Cooter
They meet where the Edwards Plateau rivers run toward the Rio Grande. A: Broad yellow bars and blotches behind the eye in the Texas Cooter; thin yellow stripes only in the Rio Grande Cooter. B: Whorls and irregular rings in the Texas Cooter; bull's-eye rings: dark and pale rings one inside another in the Rio Grande Cooter.
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