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==Habitat==
''S. minor'' lives in clean freshwater [[Habitat|habitats]] such as springs, [[Stream|streams]], runs, [[Wetland|wetlands]], [[Pond|ponds]], and [[River|rivers]].<ref name=":82">{{Cite book|last=Powell|first=Robert|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913923783|title=Peterson field guide to reptiles and amphibians of eastern and central North America|date=2016|others=Roger Conant, Joseph T. Collins, Isabelle Hunt Conant, Tom R. Johnson, Errol D. Hooper, Travis William Taggart|isbn=978-0-544-12997-9|edition=Fourth|___location=Boston|oclc=913923783}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite journal|last=Dijk (N/A)|first=Peter Paul van|date=2010-08-01|title=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Sternotherus minor|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/en|journal=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species}}</ref>
== Diet ==
The diet of the loggerhead musk turtle changes as it grows. Younger turtles have a more varied diet, eating [[Insect|insects]], [[Snail|snails]], [[crayfish]], and [[Clam|clams]] while adults eat mostly [[Snail|snails]] and [[Clam|clams]] since adults are larger.<ref name=":72">{{Cite journal|last=Pfaller|first=Joseph Bryce|date=2009|title=Bite-Force Generation and Feeding Biomechanics in the Loggerhead Musk Turtle, Sternotherus Minor: Implications for the Ontogeny of Performance|url=https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A176434/|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":32">{{Cite journal|last=Cox|first=William A.|last2=Wyatt|first2=Steven T.|last3=Wilhelm|first3=Walter E.|last4=Marion|first4=Ken R.|date=1988|title=Infection of the Turtle, Sternotherus minor, by the Lung Fluke, Heronimus mollis: Incidence of Infection and Correlations to Host Life History and Ecology in a Florida Spring|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1564348|journal=Journal of Herpetology|volume=22|issue=4|pages=488|doi=10.2307/1564348|issn=0022-1511}}</ref>
Loggerhead musk turtles forage in [[Stream|streams]] with sandy or vegetated bottoms with varying speeds of currents.<ref name=":32" /> They spend most of their time in the water with less time spent basking out in the sun as is observed in other species.<ref name=":9">{{Cite journal|last=Cox|first=William A.|last2=Marion|first2=Ken R.|date=1978|title=Observations on the female reproductive cycle and associated phenomena in spring-dwelling populations of Sternotherus minor in North Florida (Reptilia: Testudines)|journal=Herpetologica|pages=20-33|via=JSTOR}}</ref>
==Reproduction==
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