EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Chrysemys


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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Chrysemys (Painted turtles)
species
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C. picta (Painted Turtle)
Original Description
Gray 1844 : 27
Common Name
Painted turtles
Distribution
As for the single species
Comments
Considered by McDowell (1964), Weaver and Rose (1967), Holman (1977), and Fritz (1981b) to include Pseudemys and Trachemys. This view has been rejected by Vogt and McCoy (1980), Ernst and Ernst (1980), Ward (1984), Iverson (1986), Seidel and Smith (1986), Ernst (1990), and Legler (1990). Reviewed by Ernst (1988c) and in part by Smith and Smith (1979:418-433).
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