Has anyone seen a Ringed Map Turtle? Endemic to Louisiana and Mississippi.

These little guys are losing their habitat at a drastic rate due to human encroachment. Has anyone seen one? Do they eat them in the south? Do people care about turtles?

The Ringed Map Turtle is one of the smaller so called 'Sawback' map turtles. The term 'sawback' is attributed to three (and possibly a fourth) of the map turtles species. They are designated as sawback map turtles because of their extremely accentuated scutes going down the center of their carapace, the vertebral keel. The rear of these vertebral scutes, especially the first three, strongly juts upward creating a serrated or saw-like appearance. The Ringed Map Turtle is very similar to the Yellow-blotched Map Turtle G. flavimaculata, except it has a yellow ring around of each its scutes rather than a blotch, to accent its otherwise olive brown body with a bright touch of yellow.

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