Turtles
Report your sighting!Stinkpot

- 5.1-11.5cm; record 13.7cm
- Small turtle with smooth, light olive to black, high-domed, narrow carapace
- Plastron is small, yellow-brown and gives little protection to legs; a "hinge" runs across the front of plastron allowing it to close upward to protect head
- Two light stripes on each side of head
- Barbels (fleshy projections) on chin and throat
- Named for musky odour produced when handled (also called "stinkpot")
- Rarely leaves water; basks in shallow water with shell exposed and may climb trees and branches above water
- May be confused with a small snapping turtle, but snapper has long serrated tail
- Lays 2-5 oval, white, hard-shelled eggs
- THREATENED
