Cagle's map turtle
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| phylum | Chordata | The Spotted turtle, the only extant species of Clemmys, is a small, semi-aquatic (this means that it lives in part water and part on land) turtle that reaches a carapace length of 8–12 cm (3.1–4.7 in) upon adulthood. Their broad, smooth, low dark-colored upper shell, or carapace, ranges in its exact colour from black to a bluish black with a number of yellow tiny round spots. The spotting patterning extends from the head, to the neck and out onto the limbs. Males and females can be distinguished by differences in plastron shape and eye and chin colouration.
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| clade | Anapsida | |
| order | Testudines | |
| family | Emydidae | |
| genus | Graptemys | |
| species | G. caglei |
