Painted Roof Turtle

Approximately 7 8 x x1 3 depth all stones are numbered and signed.

Painted roof turtle.

The legs also have red striping and the carapace has bright red crescent shapes along the marginal scutes. Their name comes from the brightly colored markings on their extremities which range from yellow to orange to red. It lives in slow moving fresh waters from southern canada to northern mexico and from the atlantic to the pacific. The painted roof turtle is protected under schedule i of the indian wildlife protection act 1972.

Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. Male eastern painted turtles can grow to 4 6 inches in length while females can reach 6 8 inches. The eastern painted turtle has a large yellow dot on either side of the head and yellow striping that changes to red down the neck. It is found in the major rivers of south asia.

Painted in brown acrylics and coated with a uv protective varnish for a lifetime of enjoyment and will withstand all weather elements. Shipping in us is usps flat rate with tracking and insurance. The indian roofed turtle pangshura tecta is a species of turtle in the family geoemydidae. Despite their extremely wide distribution there are just four different subspecies.

Painted turtles are some of the most widespread members of the turtle testudines family in north america. The painted turtle chrysemys picta is the most widespread native turtle of north america. This is a flat stone painting of a colombian turtle. The turtle is the only species of the genus chrysemys which is part of the pond turtle family emydidae.