Ben88
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I took this photo yesterday in Princeton, NJ, and I'm not sure about the species: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tremarctos/16934828817/. Eastern Painted Turtles are by far the most common species around here, and I don't recall ever seeing one with an all-black head (but I haven't paid much attention to them). Is it a melanistic individual of that species, or something else? It was quite large relative to nearby Painted Turtles.