turtle live in water only.

terrapin land and water

tortoise land only.

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Unfortunatly americans called most cheliona turtles and to futher confuse things some turles are called tortoise. But that's the rule generally other than mainly box turtles.

In the USA a lot of what we call tortoises are called turtles or land turtles (wood/box turtles we call turtles although not strictly aquatic mind you)... all tortoises and terrapins are part of the turtle family but here's a nice diagram for the names commonly used for different types of turtles in the USA, UK and AU

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Think youll find theres only actually a few species that are really terrapins and not all turtles live in just water , the huge majority of them are semi aquatic !!!

Thier arnt that many species at all that are totaly aquatic myfriend , not avin a go just make sure you get it right when giving newbies advice.


Lloyd

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Lloyd