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Three-toed Box Turtle
- Colouration
- The colouration of the upper shell of the majority of specimens is dull olive, with obscure, yellowish markings. Some specimens are darker and show yellow markings that appeal strongly to C. carolina. The head is generally brownish, with but obscure markings.
- Distribution
- Georgia and Florida westward to the Rio Grande; in the Mississippi Valley this species extends northward into Missouri.
In the general form of the carapace, this species is precisely like the Common Box Turtle, from which it differs in possessing but three claws on the hind foot, and the extreme narrowness of that extremity.