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Turtles in Tampa, FL: Please ID (1 Viewer)

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I've taken a number of turtle photos but am having a hard time IDing them. Thanks in advance for the help.
 

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Number 2, to begin with certainties is Striped Mud Turtle, Kinosternon bauri.

To be sure of the cooters I'd need to see their venters and scrape the carapace clean, but based on visible characters, No 1 is Suwannee River Cooter, Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis, based on anterior head markings and the shape of the upper beak. No 3 is Florida Redbellied Turtle, P. nelsoni, based upon adult melanism arnd notched front of upper jaw flanked by cusps (Not well shown in photo.) No 4 is Suwannee River Cooter. No 5 is Florida Redbellied Turtle.

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