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  2. List of fictional turtles - Wikipedia

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    A nervous and superstitious turtle who always relies on fortune cookies. Tooter Turtle: Total Television: Touché Turtle: Touché Turtle: Turtle The Red Turtle: A sea turtle turned into a human Umigame (Turtle) Dragon Ball: A sea turtle who is a companion of Master Roshi. He has a son named Umigame Jr. (Turtle, Jr.) English localized name ...

  3. File:Turtle names in different languages.jpg - Wikipedia

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    A comparison of the different names for each type of chelonian. 16:51, 11 August 2007: 1,388 × 792 (324 KB) Neale Monks (talk | contribs) A comparison of the different names for each type of chelonian.

  4. List of Testudines families - Wikipedia

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    Common name(s) Example species Example image Carettochelyidae Boulenger, 1887: 1: Pig-nosed turtle: Pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811: 6: Sea turtles: Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) Chelydridae Gray, 1831: 2: Snapping turtles: Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) Dermatemydidae Gray, 1870 : 1 ...

  5. Turtle - Wikipedia

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    Turtle shells are made mostly of bone; the upper part is the domed carapace, while the underside is the flatter plastron or belly-plate. Its outer surface is covered in scales made of keratin, the material of hair, horns, and claws. The carapace bones develop from ribs that grow sideways and develop into broad flat plates that join up to cover ...

  6. Eastern box turtle - Wikipedia

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    The eastern box turtle is the official state reptile of two U.S. states: North Carolina (which gives rise to the species and subspecies name carolina carolina) and Tennessee. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In Pennsylvania, the eastern box turtle made it through one house of the legislature, but failed to win final naming in 2009. [ 30 ]

  7. Spiny softshell turtle - Wikipedia

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    The spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera) is a species of softshell turtle, one of the largest freshwater turtle species in North America. Both the common name, spiny softshell, and the specific name , spinifera (spine-bearing), refer to the spiny, cone-like projections on the leading edge of the carapace , which are not scutes (scales).

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  9. Olive ridley sea turtle - Wikipedia

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    Olive ridley turtles exhibit two different nesting behaviours: solitary nesting (the most prevalent) and synchronized mass nesting, termed arribadas. [11] They are unique among sea turtle species in the latter behaviour, for which they are best known. Females return to the same beach from where they hatched, to lay their eggs.