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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: King Cobra, Painted turtle, Leatherback sea turtle, Hawksbill sea turtle, Daboia, Gharial, Spotted turtle, Solomon Islands skink, Coelophysis, Capture of painted turtles, Azemiopinae, Cane turtle, Diamondback terrapin, Flatback sea turtle, Pig-nosed turtle, Deinagkistrodon, Boomslang, Blanding's turtle, Erpeton tentaculatum, Thorny Devil, Black Caiman, Chicken turtle, Aniliidae, Beaked gecko, Round Island Boa, Desert iguana, Loxocemidae, Calloselasma, Bothrochilus, Zebra-tailed lizard, Central American river turtle, Crenadactylus ocellatus, Black pond turtle, Rhineuridae, Haplocheirus, Cemophora coccinea, Brahminy river turtle, Big-headed turtle, Keel-bellied Water Snake, Greater earless lizard, Pancake tortoise, Narrow-bridged musk turtle, LaGuaira Bachia, Checkerboard worm lizard, Nadzikambia, Burmese peacock softshell, Weapontail, Brachyophidium, Hesperosuchus, Prickly Skink, Bowsprit tortoise, Senticolis triaspis, Peringuey's Leaf-toed Gecko, Androngo, Pachycalamus, Seychelles Wolf Snake, Desert Plated Lizard, Carphodactylus, Malaysian giant turtle, Narudasia, Chalarodon, Geckonia, Pseudopus, Diplometopon, Lucasium damaeum, Hormonotus, Dwarf Beaked Snake, Tiny Scaled Gecko, Crocodilurus, Cercosaura, Coloptychon, Amapasaurus. Excerpt: C. p. bellii C. p. dorsalis C. p. marginata C. p. picta 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. Within much of its range, it is the most numerous turtle. 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, but four regionally based subspecies (the eastern, midland, southern, and wester...
