#1492 · 🦎 reptiles

Painted Turtle

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Sierschildpad ·Chrysemys picta

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

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...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 189,691iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
189,691 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1783 (243 years ago).