tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post5972688639166632179..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: On the Track of Unknown TerrapinsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-46500421957777433682009-05-28T14:58:46.742+01:002009-05-28T14:58:46.742+01:00After doing some research on the topic, I think he...After doing some research on the topic, I think he's a new color morph of the North American pond slider of which the red-ear is but one subspecies. Cuthbert even has the vestiges of red around his "ears."<br /><br />These turtles are bred in huge swamplands in Louisiana, where the hatchlings are collected and shipped off to Southeast Asia, where they wind up in all sorts markets. Because these turtles are big volume breeders and the turtle farmers collect virtually every hatching, we get a vast array of birth defects and mutations in this species. In fact, some turtle farmers even sell those with mutations and defects for a higher price!<br /><br />http://www.theturtlesource.com/turtle_inventory.asp?id=100200375&cat=333<br /><br />There are now melanistic red-eared sliders for sell:<br /><br />http://www.theturtlesource.com/turtle_inventory.asp?cat=333&id=100200362<br /><br />It would not be outside the realm of possibility for a speckled morph of the red-eared slider or other pond slider subspecies.<br /><br />I assume that when you say he does courtship behavior that he scratches at her head with his long claws one his front feet. I once spent hours in a pet shop watching a male red-eared slider do that behavior to a large albino female.Retrievermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780519136583108632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-46966387502323597602009-05-28T13:29:50.598+01:002009-05-28T13:29:50.598+01:00Could he be a razoback musk turtle?
http://www.au...Could he be a razoback musk turtle?<br /><br />http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/cs-razrbk.htm<br /><br />If he's not, he sounds like a new species of musk turtle.Retrievermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780519136583108632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-41721715596443366362009-02-01T10:11:00.000+00:002009-02-01T10:11:00.000+00:00i hope you find out what he is! he looks very cute...i hope you find out what he is! he looks very cute in that photo but i bet he is more bitey in real life!fleuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05170785301135449757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-76161496282289513052009-01-30T16:00:00.000+00:002009-01-30T16:00:00.000+00:00I hope you find out who Cuthburt is Jon! There wer...I hope you find out who Cuthburt is Jon! There were terrapins or turtles in the wild in Oxfordshire in the 1960s according to a letter I once received-but I can`t find it. Also,there is a very old (c.100-150 years ago) report of terrapins in a Wiltshire water trough,I vaguely recall-Richard MuirheadRichard Muirheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16377310753321105652noreply@blogger.com