Turtle terrapin

Freshwater turtles appear to use waterborne cues to find members of the oposite sex. During the mating season, males of the Iberian peninsula terrapin. 

The scutes of all types of terrapins, turtles and tortoises have been tried out at one time or another as a form of tortoiseshell, but without success. Unfortunately not much was known about the different species, and, as some of them were able to regrow scutes that had fallen off, it was presumed that hawksbill turtles would also be able to do so. 

The fourth class includes fish chowder, clam chowder, codfish balls, green turtle stew, terrapin stew, and deviled crabs. 

Turtles, tortoises or terrapin (for American freshwater turtles) are reptiles with a shell used as a house . The logger head and green sea turtles are caught commercially for their meat. In Germany turtle is mostly eaten in soup or stew. The meat of the so-called soup turtle (Chelonia mydas) is faintly red to bright red, and is marketed canned. An imitation or mock turtle soup is prepared from edible parts of heads of calves and has no relation to turtles except for the name. 

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