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Painted Turtle - Chrysemys picta
Eastern Painted Turtle - Chrysemys picta picta
(Schneider, 1783)
Red = Eastern Painted Turtle - C. p. picta
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| Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia | Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia | Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia |
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| Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia | Adult, Pitt County, North Carolina | |
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| Adult, Pitt County, North Carolina | ||
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| Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia | Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia | Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia |
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| Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia | Adult, next to Snapping Turtle, Fairfax County, Virginia |
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| Adult, Montgomery County, Maryland | Adult, Montgomery County, Maryland | Adult chasing another adult, Fairfax County, Virginia |
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| Adult, Fairfax County, Virginia | ||
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| An Eastern Painted Turtle swims in a wetlands in Virginia. |
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| Habitat, Fairfax County, Virginia | Habitat, Fairfax County, Virginia | Riverside canal habitat |
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| Marsh habitat, Anne Arundel County, Maryland | Forest pond habitat, Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
Habitat, Kent County, Delaware |
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| Habitat, Kent County, Delaware | Habitat, Chester County, Pennsylvania | Habitat, Pitt County, North Carolina |
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| Adult in habitat, Fairfax County, Virginia | ||
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