{"id":9443,"date":"2024-05-28T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:29:35","slug":"turtle-in-road-2024-05-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/turtle-in-road-2024-05-24.html","title":{"rendered":"Turtle in road 2024-05-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThis turtle was in the middle of the road as I drove home.\r\nIt was in Quarterman Road, near Redeye Creek, which runs to the Withlacoochee River.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Turtle in road and on the other side\" name=\"MMM:Turtle-in-road-and-on-the-other-side\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/many.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/many.jpg\"  alt=\"[Turtle in road and on the other side]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/many.html\">Turtle in road and on the other side<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nSo I carried it to the other side.\r\nIt was about a foot long.\r\n<p>\r\nWhat kind of turtle is it?\r\n<p>\r\nMy guess is river cooter, <em>Pseudemys concinna<\/em>.\r\n<p>\r\nCould be the subspecies Suwannee cooter, <em>Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis<\/em>.\r\nOr the subspecies Eastern river cooter, <em>Pseudemys concinna concinna<\/em>\r\nfirst described by my cousin John Eatton LeConte Jr. in 1830.\r\n<p>\r\nOr maybe a Florida cooter or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allturtles.com\/cooter-turtles\/\">some other species<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\nWhat do you think?<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Turtle in road\" name=\"TT:Turtle-in-road\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/20240524_102403.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/20240524_102403.jpg\"  alt=\"[Turtle in road]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/20240524_102403.html\">Turtle in road<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Turtle across the road\" name=\"TT:Turtle-across-the-road\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/20240524_102512.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\"  width=\"600\"  border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/20240524_102512.jpg\"  alt=\"[Turtle across the road]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-24--turtle-in-road\/20240524_102512.html\">Turtle across the road<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This turtle was in the middle of the road as I drove home. It was in Quarterman Road, near Redeye Creek, which runs to the Withlacoochee River. Turtle in road and on the other side So I carried it to the other side. It was about a foot long. What kind of turtle is it? 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