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One of New York’s most attractive freshwater turtles, the spotted turtle has yellow polka dots sprinkled across its neck, head and carpace. Spotted turtles frequent shallow wetlands with generally clear water and soft, muddy substrates, such as swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, wet meadows, vernal pools, tidal wetlands, slow-moving woodland streams, flooded ditches and adjacent fields and forests.