Common Musk Turtle
Sterotherus odoratus
Size: to 4.5"
Habitat: in and around water
Notes: Also known as 'Stinkpots'. Often bad-smelling, sometimes snappy, and a nimble climber. Occasionally, this little turtle is even found in trees.
Long Island - East Chart
- 3/4 Tug
- Amsterdam
- Andrea Doria
- Atlantic
- USS Baldwin
- Barataria
- USS Bass
- Black Point
- Burnside
- Coastwise
- Coimbra
- HMS Culloden
- Defender
- Dodger
- John A. Downs
- Essex
- USS G-1
- USS G-2
- Gate City
- Gluckauf
- Grecian
- Horton's Point / Commodore
- Hylton Castle
- John C. Fitzpatrick
- Kenosha
- Kismet Artificial Reef
- USS L-8
- Larchmont
- Lexington
- Lightburne
- Linda
- Maiden Creek
- Malden
- Mattituck Inlet
- Mattituck Artificial Reef
- Montauk Inlet
- Moriches Inlet
- Mount Sinai Harbor
- Myronus
- Norness
- USS Ohio
- Old Yankee
- Olinda
- Oregon
- Panther
- Pinnacle
- Ponquogue Bridge
- Port Jefferson Artificial Reef
- Port Jefferson Inlet
- Puszta
- Reggie
- Republic
- USS San Diego
- Sea Wolf
- Sebastian
- Shinnecock Inlet
- Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
- Smithtown Artificial Reef
- Snug Harbor
- USS Spikefish
- Suffolk
- USS Tarantula
- Tennyson
- Thames
- Thelma Phoebe
- U-853
- Volund
- Block Island Wind Farm
- Wolcott
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