Musk turtle is the common name given to three genera of aquatic turtles:
- Sternotherus, the musk turtles proper,
- Staurotypus, variously called Mexican, three-keeled or giant musk turtles, and.
- Claudius, the narrow-bridged musk turtle.
Famous quotes containing the word turtle:
“I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,
The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,
The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,—
All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)