{"id":6278,"date":"2024-06-10T16:56:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:56:53","slug":"6278-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/6278-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Team Week 4: Easterns vs Ornates"},"content":{"rendered":"

The majority of field sites we go to have either Eastern box turtles or Ornate box turtles. However, we went to a site last week that had both. Here is how you differentiate between the two species:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Eastern box turtles<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n

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Ornate box turtles<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Scientific Name<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Terrapene carolina carolina<\/em><\/td>\nTerrapene ornata ornata<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Native Range<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

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(Todd, 2000, p. 5)<\/td>\n

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(Redder et al., 2006, p.10)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Habitat<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Forested areas<\/td>\nPrairies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Image<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

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More color variation, may see yellow, brown, orange, or red<\/td>\n

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Tend to have yellow lines on a brown background on carapace with yellow or orange accents on scales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Size<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Larger<\/td>\nSmaller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Redder, A. J., Dodd, C. K., Jr., Keinath, D., (2006). Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata ornata): A technical conservation assessment. <\/em>USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region. https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/Internet\/FSE_DOCUMENTS\/stelprdb5182076.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Todd, C. S. (2000). Eastern box turtle assessment<\/em>. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: Wildlife Division. https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/ifw\/docs\/box-turtle-speciesassessment.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The majority of field sites we go to have either Eastern box turtles or Ornate box turtles. However, we went to a site last week that had both. Here is how you differentiate between the two species: Eastern box turtles Ornate box turtles Scientific Name Terrapene carolina carolina Terrapene ornata ornata Native Range   (Todd, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}