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Arizona Mud Turtle

Colouration
The carapace is brownish-yellow; the plastron pale yellow. Above, the head and neck are dull olive; both are thickly sprinkled with yellow on the under surfaces.
Dimensions
The species attains a length of five or six inches.
Distribution
Arizona and New Mexico.

This is a large species and might be described as intermediate between the species of the genus already considered and the Mexican and Central American species, with which the lobes of the plastron are very wide and the hinges so elastic that the shell closes as tightly as with the true box turtles (Cistudo), a character clearly seen in the illustration of the following species--C. integrum.