▶ Adopt A Pond | Species Guides | western painted turtle

Turtles

Report your sighting!

Western Painted Turtle

Chrysemys picta bellii
  • 9-18 cm; record 25.1cm
  • Light, irregular lines on olive to brownish-grey carapace
  • Yellow plastron with large dark, irregular shaped central blotch
  • Often seen basking on logs
  • Lays 3-20 oval, white, smooth-shelled eggs
  • NOT AT RISK
}