The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north/Key to the Species
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Key to the Species.
Body enclosed in a shell | Turtles. | |||
With walking feet; shell hard: | ||||
Plain gray, brown or black | Figs. 1 to 7 | |||
Marked with colored stripes or spots | 8 to 14 | |||
Shell soft, leathery | 15 to 16 | |||
With swimming feet, like paddles | 17 | |||
Body covered with scales | ||||
Four legs; or if not, the neck as wide as head | Lizards. | |||
No legs; neck narrower than head | Snakes. | |||
Spotted or barred | 1 to 12 | |||
Striped lengthwise | 13 to 21 | |||
Plain | 22 to 26 | |||
Ring around neck | 27 | |||
Body covered with skin only | ||||
No tail, when adult | Frogs. | |||
Green | 1, 2, 3 | |||
Brown, yellowish or gray | 4 to 14 | |||
With tail | Salamanders. |