Chrysemys

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Chrysemys
Temporal range: 15–0  Ma
Chrysemys picta marginata (27730831161).jpg
Painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Emydidae
Subfamily: Deirochelyinae
Genus: Chrysemys
Gray, 1844
Species

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Chrysemys is a genus of turtles in the family Emydidae. They are found throughout most of North America. [2] The species in the genus include the painted and the southern painted turtles.

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Reproduction

Chrysemys have temperature dependent sex determination. During egg incubation, lower temperatures produce males while higher temperatures produce females. [3]

Species

There are two extant species: [2]

ImageScientific NameCommon NameDistribution
Chrysemys picta dorsalis (aka).jpg Chrysemys dorsalis Agassiz, 1857 Southern painted turtle south-central United States.
Eastern Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta picta) (49866261538) (cropped).jpg Chrysemys picta Schneider, 1783) Painted turtle southern Canada to northern Mexico

Fossil record

Several fossil species have been described, dating back to the Miocene.

Fossil species

References

  1. ↑ Ernst, Carl H.; Lovich, Jeffrey E. (2009). Turtles of the United States and Canada. JHU Press. pp. 184–185. ISBN   978-0-8018-9121-2.
  2. 1 2 Chrysemys at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 October 2021.
  3. ↑ Bull, J.J. (1980). "Sex Determination in Reptiles". Quarterly Review of Biology. 55 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1086/411613.
  4. ↑ Jasinski, S.E. (2022). "A new species of Chrysemys (Emydidae: Deirochelyinae) from the latest Miocene-Early Pliocene of Tennessee, USA and its implications for the evolution of painted turtles". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. zlac084: 149–183. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac084.
  5. 1 2 3 Jasinski, S.E. (2018). "A new slider turtle (Testudines: Emydidae: Deirochelyinae: Trachemys) from the late Hemphillian (late Miocene/early Pliocene) of eastern Tennessee and the evolution of the deirochelyines". PeerJ. 6 e4338. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4338 . PMC   5815335 . PMID   29456887.
  6. ↑ Weems, R.E.; George, R.A. (2013). "Amphibians and Nonmarine Turtles from the Miocene Calvert Formation of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (USA)". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (4): 570–588. Bibcode:2013JPal...87..570W. doi:10.1666/12-071. S2CID   86171253.

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  1. ↑ Bull, J.J. (1980). "Sex Determination in Reptiles". Quarterly Review of Biology. 55 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1086/411613.
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