Editing Painted turtle (section)

====Eastern painted turtle====

[[File:Turtle from Pomp's Pond in Andover.jpg|thumb|alt=An eastern painted turtle held|Eastern painted turtle in Massachusetts]]

The eastern painted turtle ranges from southeastern Canada to Georgia with a western boundary at approximately the Appalachians. At its northern extremes, the turtle tends to be restricted to the warmer areas closer to the Atlantic Ocean. It is uncommon in far north New Hampshire and in Maine is common only in a strip about 50 miles from the coast.<ref name="NHFG range">{{cite web|title=Eastern painted turtle|url=http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/profiles/painted-turtle.html|publisher=New Hampshire Fish and Game Department|access-date=2017-10-06|archive-date=2017-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006162117/http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/profiles/painted-turtle.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Hunter>{{cite book|last=Hunter|first=Malcolm L.|title=Maine amphibians and reptiles|date=1999|publisher=University of Maine Press|isbn=978-0-89101-096-8|author2=Calhoun, Aram J. K. |author3=McCollough, Mark }} as cited by {{cite web|title=Amphibians and reptiles|url=http://www.dlwa.org/docs/reptiles_and_amphibians.pdf|publisher=Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association|access-date=2011-02-10}}</ref> In Canada, it lives in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia but not in Quebec or Prince Edward Island. To the south it is not found in the coastal lowlands of southern North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia, or in southern Georgia in general or at all in Florida.{{sfn|Ernst|Lovich|2009|p=185}}<ref name=Conant/>{{sfn|Carr|1952|p=215}}<ref name="AL FG"/>

In the northeast, there is extensive mixing with the midland subspecies, and some writers have called these turtles a "hybrid swarm".<ref name="Bleakney 1958" /><ref name=Pugh>{{cite journal|last=Pugh|first=F. Harvey|author2=Pugh, Margaret B.|title=The systematic status of painted turtles (''Chrysemys'') in the northeastern United States |journal=Copeia|date=1968-07-31|volume=1968|issue=1|pages=612–618|jstor=1442033|doi=10.2307/1442033}}</ref><ref name=DeGraaf>{{cite book|last=DeGraaf|first=Richard M.|title=New England wildlife: habitat, natural history, and distribution|date=2000|publisher=University Press of New England|location=Lebanon, New Hampshire|isbn=978-0-87451-957-0|author2=Yamasaki, Mariko|page=[https://archive.org/details/newenglandwildli00degr/page/52 52]|quote=In New England there are no midland populations per se. Individuals are part of an intergrade swarm.|url=https://archive.org/details/newenglandwildli00degr/page/52}}</ref> In the southeast, the border between the eastern and midland is more sharp as mountain chains separate the subspecies to different drainage basins.<ref name=Conant/><ref name="Green and Pauley">{{cite book|last=Green|first=N. Baynard|title=Amphibians and reptiles in West Virginia|date=1987|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=978-0-8229-5802-4|author2=Pauley, Thomas K.}} as cited in [[#CITEREFMann2007|Mann]] p 18.</ref>