Fig.17 from Photo-dependent localized color development in the eastern box turtle carapace.

Figure 17.

This male has been in our telemetered study population longer than any other turtle. His second vertebral scute had been shaded by a transmitter housing for 15 years when photographed. Although the shaded scute exhibits a more obvious color loss, his color pattern is still pronounced. When we examined this male a decade earlier (reported in Belzer 1997) we found no color loss under his transmitter cap during the first 5 years of shade.

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