菱斑龟
Diamondback Terrapin
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鑽紋龜，又名菱斑龜、金剛背泥龜，泽龟科鸡龟亚科鑽紋龜屬下的唯一一種物種，原生於美國東部及南部臨汽水海域的沼澤。
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🥣饮食
The diamondback terrapin typically feeds on fish, crustaceans (such as shrimp and crabs), marine worms, marine snails (especially the saltmarsh periwinkle), clams, barnacles, mussels, other mollusks, insects, carrion, and sometimes ingest small amounts of plant material, such as algae. At high densities the terrapin may eat enough invertebrates to have ecosystem-level effects, partially because periwinkles themselves can overgraze important marsh plants, such as cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora). Gender and age can greatly affect the diet of the diamondback terrapin; males and juvenile females
👁形貌
The common name refers to the diamond pattern on top of its shell (carapace), but the overall pattern and coloration vary greatly. No two diamondback terrapins look alike. The carapace is usually wider at the back than in the front, has a more or less pronounced central ridge running lengthwise, and from above it appears somewhat wedge- or kite-shaped. The carapace coloring can vary from brown to grey, with a lighter plastron (belly shell), and its body color can be grey, brown, yellow, or white. Almost all have a unique pattern of wiggly, black markings or spots on their body and head. The di
📜源流
Part of the pleasure of eating terrapin when the fashion was at its height, however, was its outré, bizarre, even monstrous essential nature...Killing, cleaning, and preparing terrapin is not easy... — Paul Freedman Diamondback terrapins were heavily harvested for food in colonial America and probably before that by Native Americans. Terrapins were so abundant and easily obtained that slaves and even the Continental Army ate large numbers of them. In the 19th century, a dish called "Terrapin à la Maryland", a stew with cream and sherry, was a canonical element, along with canvasback duck, of t