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Painted Turtle

Chrysemys picta

Photo by meganhartson
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Marsh

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)
meganhartson
Thanks Lisa! It was a smaller size turtle. Just wish I could have looked at it better to ID it but the picture was taken from a bridge on a foot path. Thats one new thing I learned today. :)
LisaPowers
Looks more like a young painted to me. Young RES usually having more green/yellow on the shell.
meganhartson
I'm wasn't sure if it is a Painted Turtle or a Red eared Slider? This is why I didn't post a scientific name. But thanks for your input. :)
Ava T-B
Hi Megan, Where you know the species as in this case, please can you look up & add the scientific name so that we can take this off of the "unknown" list. Because we have a global user base & sometimes many different common names for the same species, the system uses the scientific name to link similar spottings - which also means this may come up in the thumbnails on other spottings & more people may take a look & favorite it. Without the scientific name this will continue to show up as unidentified & you may get further ID suggestions from other users.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2011

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