Common name: the Balkan Pond Turtle
Conservation status: Least Concern
Distribution: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Syria, Turkey
Size: up to 210 mm
Description: head and limbs are greyish with yellow stripes; carapace is dark brown
Habitat: slow-moving and standing freshwater bodies with dense aquatic vegetation
Activity: diurnal, hibernation takes place from November to February
Diet: plants, invertebrates and small vertebrates
Reproduction: oviparous
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- Corfu, Greece
- Corfu, Greece
- Corfu, Greece
- Corfu, Greece
- Corfu, Greece