EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The saltwater terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) lives in brackish coastal estuaries and marshes from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Padre Island, Texas. In some instances, juvenile sea turtles share these estuaries; larger and older sea turtles swim offshore in coastal waters to the mid-continental shelf.

Detailed explanation-2: -Crocodilians live in and around swamps or bodies of freshwater or salt water.

Detailed explanation-3: -Broadly speaking the word terrapin is used to describe those chelonians living in freshwater, while the word turtle is reserved for those in marine environments.

Detailed explanation-4: -terrapin, (Malaclemys terrapin), a term formerly used to refer to any aquatic turtle but now restricted largely, though not exclusively, to the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) of the turtle family Emydidae.

Detailed explanation-5: -Diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) are the only aquatic turtle that lives in brackish waters (a mix of fresh and saltwater). Special glands around its eyes let it flush out excess salt from its body, similarly to sea turtles.