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Western Painted Turtle

Chrysemys picta

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Field Notes

Description:

The Painted Turtle is 4 to 10 inches long with a top shell that is dark and smooth without a ridge. Its skin is olive to black with red orange, or yellow stripes on its extremities.

Habitat:

The Painted Turtle lives in slow-moving fresh water and eats aquatic vegetation such as insects and fish.

Notes:

This turtle was sighted near South Tamarac Lake.

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Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge
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PublishedJuly 1, 2013

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