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Worcester County, Massachusetts
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2 turtle drawings (8 x 14 cm. and 8 x 13 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: bAg 168.60.10 (18)h
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1 turtle drawing (8 x 20 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: bAg 168.60.10 (22)i
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Aqua Silkeborg
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2008-06-06 Vienna XXII. district (Lobau national park, 155 m AMSL).It ought to be a female, as this is not their wet bayou habitat but a dry heath: they wander off to their egg-laying grounds at this time of year.German name: Europische Sumpfschildkrte
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great meadows nwr. concord, ma. status-- listed as "threatened species" in massachusetts (as well as illinois, iowa, minnesota, new york, and wisconsin. listed as "endangered" in maine, nebraska, south dakota, missouri, and nova scotia).
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1 turtle drawing (8 x 20 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: bAg 168.60.10 (22)b
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Aqua Silkeborg
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Frederiksberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Aqua Silkeborg
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Frederiksberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Aqua Silkeborg
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Castello D'Empuries, Catalonia, Spain
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Castello D'Empuries, Catalonia, Spain
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2010.05.28 Vienna XXII. (heath 155 m AMSL).Head and claw.German name: Europische Sumpfschildkrte
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Frederiksberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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2011-06-05 Vienna XXII. district (Lobau national park - pond; 150 msm Quadrant 7865/3).Sunbathing on a sunken tree.German name: Europische Sumpfschildkrte
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Castello D'Empuries, Catalonia, Spain
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2010.05.28 Vienna XXII. (heath 155 m AMSL).German name: Europische SumpfschildkrteThey live in ponds and bayous, but once a year they need to cover longer distances on land, in search of a place to lay their eggs: this happens in late may and june.The shot was taken on one of the Lobau heaths - so obviously this one is female, and on egg-laying business. They're carrying water in their bladder when they do that (which they need for digging), and it is vital that you don't pick them up when they're on their egg-laying trip as they might let this water go loose.ID: see
herpetofauna_at; on that site there are mentioned new findings according to which only the Eastern Austrian population (of which this is one specimen) is native of old while in the rest of Austria populations are mixed with mediterranean ones - as this species was extensively used as lent meal in former times specimens from foreign populations have been introduced.
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Emys orbicularis + trachemys scripta (the big turtle).
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