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  2. Common box turtle - Wikipedia

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    The hinges of the box turtle's lower shell. The common box turtle (Terrapene carolina) gets its common name from the structure of its shell which consists of a high domed carapace (upper shell), and large, hinged plastron (lower shell) which allows the turtle to close the shell, sealing its vulnerable head and limbs safely within an impregnable ...

  3. Box turtle - Wikipedia

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    Box turtle is the common name for several species of turtle. It may refer to those of the genus Cuora or Pyxidea , which are the Asian box turtles, or more commonly to species of the genus Terrapene , the North American box turtles.

  4. North American box turtle - Wikipedia

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    North American box turtles are omnivores with a varied diet, as a box turtle will "basically eat anything it can catch". Invertebrates (amongst others insects, earth worms, millipedes) form the principal component, but the diet also consists for a large part (reports range from 30 to 90%) of vegetation.

  5. Category:Common box turtle - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the common box turtle (Terrapene carolina), a species of box turtle with six existing subspecies. It is found throughout the Eastern United States and Mexico . Pages in category "Common box turtle"

  6. Eastern box turtle - Wikipedia

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    The eastern box turtle is a subspecies of the common box turtle (Terrapene carolina). While in the pond turtle family, Emydidae, and not a tortoise, the box turtle is largely terrestrial. [4] Box turtles are slow crawlers, extremely long-lived, and slow to mature and have relatively few offspring per year.

  7. Our complete list of foods pet turtles should not eat - AOL

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    Feeding turtles and tortoises right means mimicking their natural diet; the wrong foods, even common ones, can be harmful. Here are 32 foods to avoid.

  8. List of Testudines families - Wikipedia

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    Pond turtles, terrapins, and sliders: Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) Geoemydidae Theobald, 1868: 24: Asian leaf turtles, roofed turtles, and Asian box turtles: Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) Kinosternidae Agassiz, 1857: 4: Mud and musk turtles: Common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) Platysternidae Gray, 1869 : 1: Big ...

  9. Rare turtle hatches at zoo after no sightings in wild for ...

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    A rare species of turtle which is extinct in the wild has hatched at a zoo in Kansas.. The McCord’s box turtle was born at Sedgwick County Zoo, staff announced last Friday (13 October).

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