Ouachita map turtle
Graptemys ouachitensis

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Head and neck:
Brown or olive with yellow lines; behind each eye is a rectangular-to-oval yellow spot with one to three yellow lines entering the orbit below this spot; chin with three conspicuous isolated light spots

Carapace - ground color of brown or greenish olive with an often interrupted, black, mid-dorsal stripe and a network of yellowish lines, usually forming circles or semicircles on the pleurals; the carapace has a median keel accentuated by prominent knobs or blunt spines on the second and third vertebral scute; along its posterior border, the carapace is serrated; straight carapace length = 14 cm (male), 26 cm (female).

Plastron - yellowish with a dark complex figure that becomes obscure with age; the undersurfaces of the marginals have concentric dark rings along the seams, and the bridge is marked with dark lines.

Limbs and tail:
Adult males have elongated foreclaws (especially the middle claw) and longer and wider tails; females have shorter, narrower tails

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