Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)

Created: February 5th, 2010 - 08:02 PM
Last Modified: February 5th, 2010 - 08:02 PM Entered by: Kiley Briggs
Record 37806

Country: United States		State: Vermont	County: Essex County	Time: 2009-07-09 00:00:00
Qty: 1	Age: --	Sex: --	Method:	Habitat: -----
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: -----	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: -----		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: -----	Barometric Pressure: -----

Vouchers

Comments

Posted by Kiley Briggs on Feb 05, 2010 at 11:41 PM

Fixed directions in comment below. Silly me, always getting east and west confused...

Posted by Kiley Briggs on Feb 05, 2010 at 08:27 PM

No, if you look at the VT map turtle distribution maps you'll see that maps are restricted to the western part of the sate and only occur in Lake Champlain and it's major tributaries. Caledonia County is in the far northeastern corner. There is also no suitable habitat for maps in that area (mountainous ponds and streams)

http://community.middlebury.edu/~herpatlas/Assets/2005maps/SpeciesJPG/graptemys_geographica.jpg

Posted by Kyle Loucks on Feb 05, 2010 at 08:13 PM

Any chance of that being a map turtle?