Other Turtle Discussion :: Anyone know of this turtle species?

[DavidY]

I was doing some research online of different aquatic turtles and I came across a picture of a really cool looking turtle. It was a baby and I'm pretty sure it was some kind of Map turtle. It's carapace was a light soft grey color, but the really distinguishing feature were the really pronounced raised keels of the vertebral scutes. I mean they looked like dolphin dorsal fins! It was very cool looking. I stopped to admire it briefly because I was trying to find another link, but I was going to go back to it later. I didn't think I was going to wander too far and figured I'd be able to find the picture easily again. Well, so much for that. I went through my history, rechecked all the pages I visited, everything, and couldn't find it again.

Just wondering if anyone else might know what kind of turtle it sounds like. Thanks!

[xsavingsaturdayx]

If you hold on a sec..Ill show you!

[xsavingsaturdayx]

Did it happen to look like this?


http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/c ... turtle.htm

[DavidY]

Nope. I mean it had really tall vertebral scutes running down the middle of its back. There were maybe 3 or 4 scutes, each shaped like a dolphin's dorsal fin and about 1/4" to 1/2" high (that's assuming the turtle in the picture was maybe 2" in long).

[xsavingsaturdayx]

Ah, sorry..Wish i could help, but isnt cool how there are so many different turtle species? If i could afford another turtle and setup i would get a matamata turtle!

[DavidY]

Yea, that's a sweet turtle! Very exotic looking. The reptile show I went to last weekend had one for $350. A bit too pricey for me. I envy Turtle Addict! He has some really cool turtles!

[kiwigerman]

hehe, thats a funny looking turtle xsavingsaturdayx! what a classic pig nose! matamata turtles are cool, i agree

[Starchick]

Didn't someone post a pic of one of those here recently? Lemme try to search for it.

[Starchick]

Was it like this guy?

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h157/ ... F_0731.jpg

[DavidY]

Yea that's really close! Is that a Barbouri Map Turtle? The picture I saw though was a closeup taken from the turtle's side while he was basking and his color was a little paler (possibly an albino morph) and the keel was much more pronounced, thinner and taller. Very bizarre but really cool looking! It's a shame the keeled scales shrink as they get older.

[grey goose]

There's a whole bunch of turtle pics and descriptions here:
http://www.chelonia.org/byspecies.htm

[DavidY]

Actually I think it might have been somewhere on that site that I saw it, but it's not in the Graptemys Gallery. Man I wish I could remember where I saw it!