Description Chicken Turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, hand-colored lithograph
Date 1842
Source North American herpetology; or, A description of the reptiles inhabiting the United States. , modified from Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4997
Author Holbrook, John Edwards, 1794-1871 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_Edwards_Holbrook
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deirochelys_reticulariaHolbrookV1P07A.jpg

The chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) is an uncommon freshwater turtle found in the southeast of the United States. It is in the monotypic genus Deirochelys. The name "chicken" turtle refers to the taste of their meat, which used to be popular in southern markets. Order: Testudines, Family: Emydidae, Subfamily: Deirochelyinae, Genus: Deirochelys, Species: Deirochelys reticularia (Latreille, 1801).