Frequents Ponds: These turtles often sold in pet shops.
Habitat: Almost exclusively in quiet waters of ponds, overflow ponds, backwaters of larger rivers and shallow ponds with much vegetation; also in sloughs
Reproduction: Oviparous; 4-6 eggs deposited June-July
Aquatic; frequents ponds, lakes, and quiet streams, es¬pecially quiet, muddy waters; wanders about on land during nesting season; hibernates during winter, probably in muddy bottom of habitat
Oviparous; 3-11 eggs deposited May-August
Adult pond turtles are a little too large to maintain with comfort in the average-sized terrarium, but make wonderful pets for a home garden. Only small turtles should be used for school specimens. Young are sometimes found among baby turtles sold commercially.See Also Plus Ponds:This variety is particularly well adapted for stocking streams and plus ponds in which the brook-trout no longer thrives, owing to the clearing of the forests and the resulting higher tempera¬ture and increased muddiness of the water. To supply the great and constant demand for young fish for stocking purposes the Federal Fish Commission maintains several large hatch¬eries and many States, others. Carefully selected breeding fish are kept in specially constructed plus ponds designed with reference to cleanliness, food circulation and ease of handling the fish, pawning occurs during the winter.
The most im¬portant are the Potowomut, Pawtuxet, Moshas-suck, Woonasquatucket, and Blackstone, which empty into Narragansett Bay, and the Pawcatuck, which flows into Little Narragansett Bay. The Blackstone, the largest of these rivers, has a drainage area of 540 square miles (one third of which is in Rhode Island) and is more com¬pletely utilized for industrial purposes than any other river in the world.
There are 290 plus ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, the largest of which is Scituate Reservoir on the Pawtuxet River, which supplies water to Provi¬dence. Among other sizable bodies of water are Wallum and Tiogue lakes ; Worden and Watchaug plus ponds; and Quidnick, Flat River, and Pascoag reservoirs.
On The Other Hand See And Ponds:Rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, especially in bodies of water with an abundance of vegetation
Reproduction: Oviparous; 12-20 eggs deposited May-June
Range: Eastern North America, from St. Lawrence Basin in Que¬bec and ponds southern Ontario to New Brunswick to Great Lakes and ponds south to Georgia and ponds Alabama
Habitat: Ponds, especially those which contain an abundance of plant life.
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