Re: New websites of interest
Thanks for the tips, Chun. I hadn’t seen these either. They’re all worth a look! Did you note that the program at Richard Stockton College, New Jersey, raises the hatchlings in a brine solution? Interesting since most of the observations posted to this list have tended toward fresh for the hatchlings? Looking at the pictures on these four new sights and on others, I keep seeing white headed, white skinned with black dots DBTs with black concentric rings coming from wild populations in New Jersey and the Chesapeake area. Hay called these northerns Malaclemmys centrata concentricas or “Chesapeake Terrapins” in his 1904 study. He noted the color pattern helped determine them as the most desired Chesapeake dbts in the food trade. Gray to bluish gray centratas from the Carolinas were not valued nearly as high in the market according to Hay Today, it seems all of the DBTs with white skin and visible black concentric circles on the shell are being advertised as “ornate” centratas and usually “carolinian centratas.” Can anyone who has seen wild populations in the north and in the Carolinas clarify if this color pattern comes from both areas today? Were they segregated and distinct prior to the mixing caused by the importations to the northern markets? Chun-Ming Chew wrote: