Turtles

Wood Turtle

Glyptemys insculpta

14-20cm; record 23.4cm
Brown or greyish-brown, heavily sculptured carapace, often with a central keel or ridge and raised concentric growth rings on each scute
Rear margin of carapace serrated
Plastron is yellow with black squares
Head black; skin brown; adults with orange or yellow on neck and legs
Found on land (the most terrestrial turtle in Ontario) and in or near streams and wet meadows
Lays 4-12 oval, white, thin-shelled eggs
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