Editing Painted turtle (section)

====Midland painted turtle====

The midland painted turtle lives from southern Ontario and Quebec, through the eastern U.S. Midwest states, to Kentucky, Tennessee and northwestern Alabama, where it intergrades with the southern painted turtle.<ref name="Ernst 1970">{{cite journal|last=Ernst|first=Carl H.|title=The status of the painted turtle, ''Chrysemys picta'', in Tennessee and Kentucky|journal=Journal of Herpetology|date=1970-05-29|volume=4|issue=1|pages=39–45|jstor=1562701|doi=10.2307/1562701}}</ref> It also is found eastward through West Virginia, western Maryland and Pennsylvania. The midland painted turtle appears to be moving east, especially in Pennsylvania.<ref name="Sheils">{{cite web|last=Shiels|first=Andrew L|title=A picta worth a thousand words: Portrait of a painted turtle|url=http://www.fishandboat.com/Resource/AmphibiansandReptiles/Documents/pictathousand.pdf|work=Pennsylvania Angler and Boater catalog|publisher=Pennsylvania Fish and Boating Commission|pages=28–30|access-date=2017-10-06|archive-date=2017-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212165141/http://www.fishandboat.com/Resource/AmphibiansandReptiles/Documents/pictathousand.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> To the northeast it is found in western New York and much of Vermont, and it intergrades extensively with the eastern subspecies.{{sfn|Ernst|Lovich|2009|p=186}}<ref name=Conant/>{{Clear}}