In fact the flattened musk turtle looks as if someone had accidentally stepped on it, hence the common name. The flattened musk turtle is a freshwater...

carapace is characteristically oval and domed (an exception being the flattened musk turtle, S. depressus), with most species having one or three keels on the...

The Kinosternidae are a family of mostly small turtles that includes the mud turtles and musk turtles. The family contains 25 species within four genera...

Atlantic right whale Red wolf Hawksbill sea turtle Kemp's ridley sea turtle Bog turtle Flattened musk turtle Mojave Desert tortoise Spondylurus semitaeniatus...

(Mesoclemmys hogei) Magdalena River turtle (Podocnemis lewyana) Western swamp turtle (Pseudemydura umbrina) Flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus) Subspecies...

chemicals from musk glands. Other tactics include threat displays and Bell's hinge-back tortoise can play dead. When attacked, big-headed turtle hatchlings...

(Barbour's least gecko) Sternotherus depressus (flattened musk turtle) Terrapene coahuila (aquatic box turtle) Thamnophis gigas (giant garter snake) Thamnophis...

When it feels threatened, this turtle will emit an offensive smelling fluid from its musk glands. This trait gives the turtle one of its other common names...

(not to be confused with the loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead musk turtle). The alligator snapping turtle is found primarily in freshwaters of the southeastern...

(snapping turtles) Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) VU IUCN Family Kinosternidae (mud turtles and musk turtles) Flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus...

turtles Razor-backed musk turtle (Sternotherus carinatus) LC Flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus) CR T Loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor)...

one species of crocodilian, 12 lizard species, 49 snake species, and 31 turtle species. Three native species have possibly been extirpated from the state...

which the muskrat uses to mark its territory, and its flattened tail, the name became altered to musk-beaver; later it became "muskrat" due to its resemblance...

like the Red Hills salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti) and the flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus). Rissler has served as an associate editor...

extinct genus of meiolaniid stem-turtle native to Australasia throughout much of the Cenozoic. Meiolania was a large turtle, with the shell alone ranging...

1766) Narrow-bridged musk turtle – Claudius angustatus Cope, 1865 Giant musk turtle – Staurotypus salvinii Gray, 1864 Mexican musk turtle – Staurotypus triporcatus...

a crucial part in communication. Modern turtles possess a variety of different scent glands, including musk glands, cloacal secretions and mental glands...

required. When threatened, banded water snakes flatten their bodies to appear larger and emit a foul musk from their anal glands, and bite repeatedly. They...

to those seen in the living Claudius angustatus, the Narrow-bridged musk turtle, a member of a group known to utilize a specialised hyoid apparatus to...

easily distinguished: the watersnake has a longer, more slender body and a flattened head the same width as the neck, round pupils, and no heat-sensing pits...

(Uganda) Nile crocodile, hippopotamus, Nile monitor, African softshell turtle, marabou stork, honey badger January 3, 2011 (2011-01-03) 101 At the Nile...

placed on the later, with modern turtles displaying a wide variety of glands used to produce chemical secretions (musk glands, cloacal secretions and mental...

insulation value, and arctic mammals especially have dense fur; for example, the musk ox has guard hairs measuring 30 cm (12 in) as well as a dense underfur, which...

when touched). For most species, the shape of the bill tends to be more flattened to a greater or lesser extent. These contain serrated lamellae which are...

can include flattening the body and emitting a strong, pungent secretion from the anal glands located at the base of the tail. This musk may be ejected...

world. Some species of mongoose and civet can even spray their attacker with musk similar to the skunk and some civets have also independently evolved similar...

are adapted for an aquatic existence, with webbed feet, bills that are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding...

difference is smaller than in tragulids. The limb proportions are similar to the musk deer (Moschus) or small deer (Muntiacus, Hyelaphus), although the distal...

Strawberries, which could vie with the best in England. Yellow raspberries. Musk-Melons, by the permission of Akbar, the crop was imported from Kashmir in...