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Chrysemys picta (Painted Turtle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to Louisiana and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The turtle is the only species of the genus Chrysemys, which is part of the pond turtle family Emydidae. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. Four regionally based subspecies (the eastern, midland, southern, and western) evolved during the last ice age.
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Infraspecies

Chrysemys picta bellii (Western painted turtle)
Chrysemys picta dorsalis
Chrysemys picta marginata (Midland painted turtle)
Chrysemys picta picta (Eastern painted turtle)

Attributes

Gestation [3]  69 days
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [3]  6
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  61 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  372 grams
Female Weight [3]  378 grams
Diet [1]  Omnivore
Female Maturity [2]  7 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  4 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Illinois
Michigan

Prey / Diet

Pimephales notatus (Bluntnose minnow)[4]

Predators

Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[4]
Lontra canadensis (northern river otter)[4]
Mustela vison (American Mink)[4]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[4]
Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox)[4]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0