Cooter on Alligator Log

by Paul Rebmann

Title

Cooter on Alligator Log

Artist

Paul Rebmann

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Photograph - Photograph

Description

A peninsula cooter - Pseudemys floridana peninsularis - balanced on an alligator-shaped log along snake creek near Hontoon Island State Park, Florida.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
1 Weekly - ALL Stars,
10 Plus (10/05/2016),
500 Views -1 Image a Day (10/06/2015),
3000 to 3999 Views 1 per Day (1/17,2024),
Florida-The Beautiful Sunshine State,
Reptiles and Amphibians-25,
The 200 Club - photos with over 200 views up to 500
& Wildlife ONE A DAY (08/02/2015)

One of the most common freshwater turtles in the peninsula of Florida, the peninsula cooter can often be seen basking on logs in lakes and slow moving streams. While Pseudemys floridana - Florida cooters - range throughout the southeastern coastal plain, the subspecies peninsularis - peninsula cooter - only occurs in Florida.
Growing up to nearly 40 cm (~15 in.) in length, both the shell and body are dark with yellow lines. The underside edge of the shell has solid dark spots and the plastron is yellow with no markings.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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April 24th, 2013

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