New England Testudines

Turtles

Painted Turtle

Chelydridae

Snapping turtle / Chelydra s. serpentina

Emydidae

Spotted turtle / Clemmys guttata

* Bog turtle / Clemmys muhlenbergii

Wood turtle / Clemmys insculpta

Eastern box turtle / Terrapene c. carolina

* Map turtle / Graptemys geographica

* Plymouth redbelly turtle / Pseudemys rubriventris bangsi

Eastern Painted turtle / Chyrsema picta

Blanding’s turtle / Emydoidea blandingii

Kinosternidea

Common musk turtle / Sternotherus odoratus

Trionychidae

* Eastern spiny softshell / Apolone s. spinifera

* species with a limited range in New England

A sunning painted turtle.

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