Western Ornate Box Turtle

Terrapene ornata

These turtles live on land. Their home range is in the Southeastern region of Arizona, but I once found one even as far North as Clifton-Morenci.

The male specimen in the bottom two pics was found on the road to Red Rocks, N.M. on April 28th, 2007. We also scooted 3 big mean Gopher snakes off the road this day.