Terrapene ornata luteola, near Belen New Mexico

This was one of the two boxturles I found in a dessert site south of Albuquerque in August 2007. It was a sandy habitat with grases, Artemesia filifolia, Opuntia cymochilla, O. erinacea, Yucca glauca. Other animals with share this habitat: grasshopper (Melanoplus bowditchi), lizards: Uta stansburiana, Cophosaurus texana, Aspidoscelis neomexicanus, Gambelia wislizenii and centapede (Scolopendra polymorpha)
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