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Old 06-09-2009, 05:10 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by inBOIL View Post
It would have to be Chelydra serpentina, the common snapping turtle. It's clearly not an alligator snapping turtle (wrong head shape, shell too smooth), and there's only 2 snapping turtle species in the U.S.
Chelydra.org - Difference between Common and Alligator Snapping Turtle
Good to know. I must have had the other type, an alligator snapping turtle when I was younger. I remember putting her into the fish tank one day, going off to Church, and returning later to the spectacle of a floating goldfish head at the tip of the aquarium. I originally interpreted the sight as overfeeding the fish, and I led to its eventual blowuptuation.
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