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painted turtle
(redirected from Western painted turtle)

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Noun1.painted turtle - freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markingspainted turtle - freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States
turtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming
Chrysemys, genus Chrysemys - painted turtles


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In Colorado, for example, Skyline Vista Elementary School fifth-graders lobbied Representative Jennifer Veiga for a state reptile and were rewarded in mid-March when Governor Bill Ritter signed House Bill 1017, which deemed the Western Painted Turtle the official state reptile.
Western painted turtles have similar shells on the top, but the bottom is red with a distinctive black pattern.
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