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Turtles of the World: A Guide To Every Family–A Book Review by a Turtle Lover

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Still, I had no idea that there are more than 350 species of turtles, tortoises, and terrapins currently existing around the world, or that there is a record of extinction of over 700 species. Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family. Lovich and Whit Gibbons. Ernst, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2009).

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Turtles of Brigantine

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The second turtle, about which I don’t have much to say other than it is a pretty darn common species of turtle, at least in the northeastern United States, is the Eastern Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta picta.

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