The painted turtle hunts along water bottoms. It quickly juts its head into and out of vegetation to stir potential victims out into the open water, where they are pursued. The turtle holds large prey in its mouth and tears the prey apart with its forefeet. It also consumes plants and skims the surface of the water with its mouth open to catch small particles of food. Although all subspecies of painted turtle eat both plants and animals, their specific diets vary.
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Painted turtle
Painted turtle | Diet
It also consumes plants and skims the surface of the water with its mouth open to catch small particles of food. The turtle holds large prey in its mouth and tears the prey apart with its forefeet. It also consumes plants and skims the surface of the water with its mouth open to catch small particles of food. It eats aquatic vegetation, algae, and small water creatures including insects, crustaceans, and fish. Painted turtle eat both plants and animals
how long does it take for painted turtles to hatch
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Hatched turtles grow until sexual maturity: 2–9 years for males, 6–16 for females.
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where are they most commonly found?
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North America
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and what is their preferred domain of habitation?
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It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific
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who labelled this species for the first time?
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what do they mostly feed on?
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The painted turtle hunts along water bottoms. It quickly juts its head into and out of vegetation to stir potential victims out into the open water, where they are pursued. The turtle holds large prey in its mouth and tears the prey apart with its forefeet. It also consumes plants and skims the surface of the water with its mouth open to catch small particles of food. Although all subspecies of painted turtle eat both plants and animals, their specific diets vary.
Painted turtle | Diet
The painted wood turtle feeds on fruit, insects, and worms. Their diet should consist of 60% leafy greens, 30% protein, and 20% fruits and vegetables. Along with a varied diet, they require additional calcium to insure healthy shell growth. Unlike aquatic turtles, the painted wood turtle doesn't require water in order to swallow its food.
Painted wood turtle | Diet
The painted treeshrew's diet consists mainly of fruits and insects.
Painted treeshrew | Description
With the species existing in very limited areas with high human traffic, these turtles have become dependent upon visitors for feeding. Visitors tend to feed a mixture of grains, fruits, and various meat products. These interactions with direct feeding have created a dependence for these turtles on the people, since this species no longer has a need for hunting. This had made it hard to determine the natural diet of the species. However with the ability to consume the foods provided by the people, their diet is commonly compared to that of other species within the same genus. These organisms are on the omnivore scale of the food consumption, consisting of plants and small animals like fish and worms.
Black softshell turtle | Diet
They feed mainly on mollusks, insects, carrion, and vegetation.
Texas map turtle | Diet
They feed on insects, crustaceans, molluscs and seeds.
Greater painted-snipe | Food and feeding
Painted-snipes are omnivorous, feeding on invertebrates and seeds. Animal prey taken includes annelid worms, snails, aquatic and marsh insects, and crustaceans. The seeds of grasses such as millet and rice are also consumed, and may form a major part of the diet of some populations.
Painted-snipe | Feeding
Yellow-blotched map turtles feed mostly on insects, but are opportunistic feeders, so also consume crustaceans, fish, and some fresh plant matter.
Yellow-blotched map turtle | Diet
Its skin is olive to black with red, orange, or yellow stripes on its extremities. The subspecies can be distinguished by their shells: the eastern has straight-aligned top shell segments; the midland has a large gray mark on the bottom shell; the southern has a red line on the top shell; the western has a red pattern on the bottom shell. The turtle eats aquatic vegetation, algae, and small water creatures including insects, crustaceans, and fish. Although they are frequently consumed as eggs or hatchlings by rodents, canines, and snakes, the adult turtles' hard shells protect them from most predators.
Painted turtle | Introduction
These omnivorous turtles can eat almost anything in nature shrimps, vegetables, fruit, carrion, small fishes, snails, worms, etc. During the first two years of life these turtles are mainly carnivorous, eating small animals and carrion, but then they switch to being mainly vegetarian eating more vegetables and algae then meat.
D'Orbigny's slider | Diet
In captivity, these turtles will eat fruits such as cantaloupe and watermelon and fresh and canned fish.
Spotted turtle | Diet
However, this species has been observed to consume beetles and dragonflies that have fallen into the river. Upon examination of both female and male stomach matter, Lahanas found a distinction of food material percentages. Males had roughly 58% animal matter and 40% plant matter, while females had 70% animal matter and 29% plant matter. The three primary sources of animal matter came from freshwater sponges, bryozoans, and mollusks. The only plant matter found was a freshwater alga.
Black-knobbed map turtle | Habitat and ecology
The diet of this species is made up of insects and small vertebrates.
Julia Creek dunnart | Diet
It most likely feeds on insects and or small mammals, reptiles and amphibians.
Chestnut dunnart | Diet
While a lot of details about the species diet is unknown, it is believed that they eat mostly invertebrates as well as some small vertebrates.
False antechinus | Diet
Their primary diet consists of frogs and toads.
Drymobius | Diet
Barbour's map turtles mainly consume mollusks, insects, and small fish found in rivers.
Barbour's map turtle | Diet
A turtle's diet varies greatly depending on the environment in which it lives. Adult turtles typically eat aquatic plants, invertebrates such as insects, snails, and worms, and have been reported to occasionally eat dead marine animals. Several small freshwater species are carnivorous, eating small fish and a wide range of aquatic life. However, protein is essential to turtle growth and juvenile turtles are purely carnivorous. Sea turtles typically feed on jellyfish, sponges, and other soft-bodied organisms. Some species with stronger jaws have been observed to eat shellfish, while others, such as the green sea turtle, do not eat meat at all and, instead, have a diet largely made up of algae.
Turtle | Diet
Alabama map turtles feed on an array of food items, but prefer one in particular; the primary food item was the imported oriental mussel ("Corbicula maniliensis"), which was the most abundant macroinvertebrate in the study area. Smaller adults and juveniles feed primarily on insects, while larger adult females feed primarily on the imported oriental mussel. Feeding is between May and October, and food consumed in September and October likely was stored for winter since growth ceases in early September. They feed mainly on mollusks, insects, carrion, and vegetation.
Alabama map turtle | Diet
The Jaccard index was used to determine which prey items and arthropods it preferred to eat during each season of the year. The results indicated that it consumes any food that was available; it was not selective towards any particular prey item. Insect larva was a main part of its diet. It forages in top soil, ground litter, and rotten wood from fallen trees, which shows how insect larvae could be considered a staple part of its diet. Gastropoda were also found as a main source of food during rainy seasons.
Narrow-striped mongoose | Feeding habits
They have a particular diet that consists of insects (crickets), fish, vegetation, etc. When kept in captivity, they can eat all of the same foods that they would eat normally, with the add-ins of turtle pellets, carrots, tomatoes, peeled grapes, and spinach.
Hispaniolan slider | Diet
Chicken turtles are omnivorous, eating crayfish, fish, fruits, insects, invertebrates, frogs, tadpoles, and plants. During the first year of their lives, they are almost completely carnivorous. The chicken turtles strike out very fast with their long necks to catch live food
Chicken turtle | Diet
It feeds on lizards, frogs, and small birds.
Leptophis ahaetulla | Diet
This species' diet consists of mostly insects, particularly beetles, butterflies, and ants, with little to no variation between the diet of males and females.
Trachylepis quinquetaeniata | Diet
The diet of "S. carinatus" consists primarily of aquatic invertebrates, including freshwater clams, crayfish, snails, and various insects. It also feeds on fish and carrion.
Razor-backed musk turtle | Diet
The painted finch feeds on grass seeds mostly from spinifex (Triodia) species and sometimes may consume fruit and blades of grass. Individuals forage on the ground, hopping and bouncing among rocks and tussocks of grass in order to glean for fallen seeds. Captive birds have seen to sally-strike flying termites and glean aphids from vegetation; however, feeding on insects in the wild has not been observed.
Painted finch | Diet
The ornate box turtle is an omnivore, with no particular dietary preferences; as an opportunistic feeder, it eats whatever is available in any given location or season. Grasses, berries, insects and other invertebrates (caterpillars, grasshoppers, beetles, earthworms), fruits, vegetables, and carrion (mammals, birds, amphibians, snakes, and even other turtles). This varied diet means the turtle has very little competition for available food resources.
Ornate box turtle | Feeding preferences
Ouachita map turtles feed mainly on small aquatic animals such as shrimp, insects, molluscs, and fish. They also consume algae and aquatic plants.
Ouachita map turtle | Diet
Based on the diet of modern softshell turtles, it was an omnivore, eating water plants, invertebrates, and perhaps small fish.
Axestemys | Introduction
The female weighs around on average, against the males' average adult weight of roughly . The female's greater body volume supports her egg-production. The male has longer foreclaws and a longer, thicker tail, with the anus (cloaca) located further out on the tail.
Painted turtle | Description
The diet of "S. bicolor" is unknown. Even though one of its common names alludes to fishing, there is no evidence that this species eats fish.
Synophis bicolor | Diet
While a lot of details about the species diet is unknown, it is believed that they eat mostly invertebrates as well as some small vertebrates.
Alexandria false antechinus | Diet
A cold-blooded reptile, the painted turtle regulates its temperature through its environment, notably by basking. All ages bask for warmth, often alongside other species of turtle. Sometimes more than 50 individuals are seen on one log together. Turtles bask on a variety of objects, often logs, but have even been seen basking on top of common loons that were covering eggs. The turtle starts its day at sunrise, emerging from the water to bask for several hours. Warmed for activity, it returns to the water to forage. After becoming chilled, the turtle re-emerges for one to two more cycles of basking and feeding.
Painted turtle | Daily routine and basking
It feeds on lizards, frogs, and small birds.
Leptophis ahaetulla nigromarginatus | Diet
No information, but most likely insects and small vertebrates.
Carpentarian dunnart | Diet
These species feeds mainly on lizards such as skinks, geckos, agamids, other snakes, toads and occasionally mice and birds. They will also readily eat carrion.
Walterinnesia aegyptia | Diet
It is believed, from evidence gathered, that this species eats insects.
Ooldea dunnart | Diet
The species feeds on worms, small insects, flake food and crustaceans.
Thayeria boehlkei | Diet
The diet of red-crowned roofed turtles consists entirely of aquatic plants.
Red-crowned roofed turtle | Diet
All mud turtles are carnivorous, consuming various aquatic invertebrates, fish, and even carrion.
Kinosternon | Diet
It feeds on frogs, mice and birds.
Chironius carinatus | Diet
Its diet consists of rodents, birds and lizards.
Crotalus unicolor | Feeding
This species eats crustaceans, mollusks, polychaetes, echinoderms and small fishes.
Lethrinus harak | Diet
The flatback sea turtle is an omnivorous species, but predominantly eats a carnivorous diet. It feeds mostly on the prey found within the shallow waters where it swims. It has been found to feed on soft corals, sea cucumbers, shrimp, jellyfish, mollusks, and other invertebrates. It will also occasionally feed on seagrasses, even though it rarely feeds on vegetation.
Flatback sea turtle | Diet
Wetland invertebrates such as worms, molluscs, insects and crustaceans; also seeds and other vegetation.
Australian painted-snipe | Diet
This species is omnivorous, eating invertebrates and plant material. It favors ants, and on plants it prefers the fruits and flowers. It commonly eats the fruit of "Chomelia obtusa", higuerón, and smilaxes. It especially favors the fruit of little coca during the summer.
Tropidurus torquatus | Diet
It feeds mainly on frogs, lizards, small birds and rodents.
Trimeresurus macrolepis | Diet
It mostly eats crustaceans, other invertebrates, and fish.
Floral wrasse | Diet
Smooth softshell turtles are mostly carnivorous, eating aquatic insects, crayfish, fish and amphibians. Although primarily carnivorous, they sometimes resort to eating vegetation such as algae, vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
Smooth softshell turtle | Diet
Based on the heavily pitted surface of the second molar of "Ouranopithecus macedoniensis", it is assumed that its diet consisted of harder foods such as nuts or tubers.
Ouranopithecus macedoniensis | Diet
The diet is varied, consisting primarily of frogs, reptiles, including other snakes, and small mammals. The young look very similar to the adults, except that they have a strong white "collar" of scales evident just below the head. This coloration fades within the first year.
Xenopeltis hainanensis | Feeding
The diet is varied, consisting primarily of frogs, reptiles, including other snakes, and small mammals.
Xenopeltis unicolor | Feeding
"T. tangitanus" mainly feed on invertebrates, but also on fruits.
Timon tangitanus | Diet
This species feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, and algae.
Johnrandallia nigrirostris | Diet
Their diet consists of anurans, dytiscid, toads, tadpoles, fish, invertebrates, hydrophilid and carrion.
Arizona mud turtle | Diet
They subsist on an insect diet, which consists mainly of orthopterans, beetles and ants. Their full diet encompasses various orders (10 recorded) of arthropods. They also eat millipedes, which other lizard taxa tend to avoid. Gut contents reveal many ants (92% of items) and some beetles (4%). A large volume of orthopterans is consumed (27%), followed by beetles (26%) and ants (18%). Juvenile diet (by volume) is dominated by ants, though beetles and orthopterans are also taken. Prey diversity and volumes fluctuate seasonally.
Acanthocercus atricollis | Diet
It feeds on amphipods, polychaetes, and mollusks.
Acreichthys tomentosus | Diet
Its diet consists of zooplankton, including copepods, larval fish, ctenophores, salps, other jellies, and fish eggs.
Chrysaora colorata | Diet
It eats shelled benthic invertebrates such as mollusks and crustaceans, but sometimes fish.
Tripletail wrasse | Diet
When juvenile, drums feed on plankton and small organisms. Adults feed at night on invertebrates like crabs and shrimp.
Equetus | Diet
Their basic diet consists of arthropods, vertebrates, seeds, and fruit.
Inca jay | Feeding
Painted wood turtles can be kept as pets, and it has long been imported into the various parts of Asia, such as Japan, Taiwan and China. The nominate subspecies is the most common subspecies kept in captivity. They will eat commercial turtle food, and will also eat plant matter.
Painted wood turtle | In captivity
These turtles are predominantly carnivorous and the remains of fish, crustaceans, mollusks, insects, and seeds of marsh plants have been found in their stomachs.
Chinese softshell turtle | Diet
Their diet includes snakes, even venomous ones such as the rattlesnake, lizards, amphibians, rodents, birds, and turtle and bird eggs.
Lampropeltis getula meansi | Diet
The diet consists mainly of small mammals, birds, and frogs.
Trimeresurus sumatranus | Diet
Their diet consists of earthworms and arthropods such as centipedes, millipedes and beetle larvae, with some fruit. Less favored arthropods include ants, beetles, spiders, cockroaches and crickets.
Large treeshrew | Diet
The diet of the decorated warbonnet consists mainly of small invertebrates including mollusks, polychae'tes, crustaceans, hydroids, and anemones. It will also eat shrimp and other small creatures which wander near its habitat.
Decorated warbonnet | Diet
This species eats fish, foraminiferans, bivalves, mollusks and small crustaceans, and is also known to feed on plant matter.
Eubleekeria splendens | Diet
In the spring, when the water reaches , the turtle begins actively foraging. However, if the water temperature exceeds , the turtle will not feed. In fall, the turtle stops foraging when temperatures drop below the spring set-point. During the winter, the turtle hibernates. In the north, the inactive season may be as long as from October to March, while the southernmost populations may not hibernate at all. While hibernating, the body temperature of the painted turtle averages . Periods of warm weather bring the turtle out of hibernation, and even in the north, individuals have been seen basking in February.
Painted turtle | Seasonal routine and hibernation
They feed on spiders, worms, millipedes, scorpions, molluscs and a range of insects.
Tylototriton verrucosus | Diet
This animal preys exclusively on the orange-brown coloured bryozoan, "Hincksina velata".
Limacia cockerelli | Diet
Employing a sit-and-wait hunting technique, painted dragons will use their keen vision to detect most of their prey by the telltale movement they make. Accordingly, their diets consist largely of surface-active, mobile prey resulting in them consuming a range of arthropods. A strange feature of the family Agamidae is that ants, which are often avoided by other lizards, feature prominently in the diets of many of its species. While it is believed that this is more of a reflection on availability than preference, it still remains to be explained why they take ants at all when so many other lizards actively avoid them due to the formic acid they contain.
Ctenophorus pictus | Diet
It is an omnivorous species that will feed upon vegetation, fish, insects, worms, and carrion.
Asian leaf turtle | Feeding
"T. coahuila" is an opportunistic feeder that will devour both plants and other animals. It will for instance eat fly larvae, dragonfly nymphs, beetles, true bugs, reptiles, fish, crayfish, and plant matter (such as "Eleocharis spp.") in the wild.
Coahuilan box turtle | Diet
This species feeds mainly on mollusks, echinoderms, and crustaceans. It also eats polychaetes and other fish, but less commonly.
Lethrinus nebulosus | Diet
Although its evolutionary history—what the forerunner to the species was and how the close relatives branched off—is not well understood, the painted turtle is common in the fossil record. The oldest samples, found in Nebraska, date to about 15 million years ago. Fossils from 15 million to about 5 million years ago are restricted to the Nebraska-Kansas area, but more recent fossils are gradually more widely distributed. Fossils newer than 300,000 years old are found in almost all the United States and southern Canada.
Painted turtle | Fossils
The stinkpot is carnivorous, consuming a wide variety of aquatic invertebrates including crayfish, freshwater clams, snails, aquatic larvae, and various insects. It will also eat fish, tadpoles, and carrion. A hatchling's diet is much more carnivorous than an adult's, and may slowly acquire a taste for aquatic plants as the turtle matures.
Sternotherus odoratus | Diet
The bird's diet consists of amphibians, aquatic invertebrates, crustaceans and molluscs.
Red-necked crake | Diet
Females of all map turtle species can be partitioned into three groups based on head (alveolar) width and corresponding ecology and phylogeny. Males do not fit neatly into the three groups describing head width, with differences in head width likely not influencing diet. Due to these differences in head size and jaw strength, females tend to eat much larger prey than the males such as snails, clams, and crayfish whereas the males eat insects and smaller crustaceans.
Graptemys | Feeding morphology
The embiopteran diet varies between species, with available food sources changing with varying habitat. The nymphs and adult females feed on plant litter, bark, moss, algae and lichen. They are generalist herbivores; during his research, Ross maintained a number of species in the laboratory on a diet of lettuce and dry oak leaves. Adult males do not eat at all, so they die of starvation soon after mating.
Embioptera | Diet
It feeds on rodents, lizards, amphibians, snakes and birds (Martins et al., 2002). with adults feeding on rodents, and juveniles feeding on frogs and lizards.
Bothrops leucurus | Diet
"K. spekii" feeds on small flowers, leaves, grass, herbs, succulents and fungi. It also eats snails and other small invertebrates, having a special preference for millipedes.
Speke's hinge-back tortoise | Diet
It feeds on Invertebrates.
Red-browed treecreeper | Diet
Its primary diet includes a wide variety of aquatic plants, and some terrestrial plants that grow near the water's edge. It will happily take fallen fruits as well. In captivity, any kind of plant will be eaten, and some "meats", too. Turtles will also take calcium in a separate form, such as a cuttlebone, so that the turtle can self-regulate calcium intake.
River cooter | Diet
Adult Arrau turtles feed almost entirely on plant material such as fruits, seeds, leaves and algae, but may also take freshwater sponges, eggs and carcasses of dead animals. Captives have been recorded feeding on meat. Juveniles feed on fish and plant material. The species is mainly active during the day.
Arrau turtle | Feeding
Spiny softshell turtles feed on a variety of food items. They commonly consume insects, crayfish, fish, algal stocks and other plant material, and mussels. They are generally observed as benthic feeders; they can either actively hunt prey or bury themselves in the sand and wait to ambush prey.
Spiny softshell turtle | Diet
"C. insculpta" is omnivorous, eating a wide variety of plant and animal matter, including the fruit and leaves of figs, as well as crustaceans, molluscs and insects.
Pig-nosed turtle | Feeding
The spotted turtle is an active hunter: seeking out prey items in the water by pointing its head into aquatic plants. It feeds at temperatures above , which in its range corresponds to roughly the middle of March onward until September. It is omnivorous and eats exclusively in the water, consuming plant material including aquatic vegetation, green algae, and in at least one instance, wild cranberries. Animal food includes aquatic insect larvae, worms, slugs, millipedes, spiders, crustaceans, tadpoles, salamanders, and several genera of small fish. These items are consumed alive or dead but always in the water. Some of the insects commonly found in with the spotted turtle's stomach contents are terrestrial, suggesting the turtle moves onto land to hunt.
Spotted turtle | Diet
The diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods.
Trumpet manucode | Diet
Studies at Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary in Maryland have also shown that eastern box turtles have fed on live birds that were trapped in netting. Many times, they will eat an item of food, especially in captivity, just because it looks and smells edible, such as hamburger or eggs, even though the food may be harmful or unhealthy.
Eastern box turtle | Diet
"M. georgesi" is essentially an omnivore, with tendencies leaning toward carnivory. A high proportion of their food comes from benthic macro-invertebrate communities that are relatively sedentary and live in immediate association with the substratum, but with some terrestrial fruit and aquatic vegetation eaten.
Bellinger River snapping turtle | Diet
Their diet consists primarily of small mammals, especially rats and bandicoots.
Taipan | Diet
They mainly eat seeds, fruits and occasionally insects.
Triton cockatoo | Diet
They are carnivorous. "N. helfrichi" mainly feed on zooplanktons, amphipods, copepods, small crustaceans and shrimp larvae. They are said to lose their bright colour if their dietary requirements are not met.
Nemateleotris helfrichi | Diet
The striped mud turtle is omnivorous. It eats insects, snails, fish, carrion, algae, and plants. The striped mud turtle also eats dried up krill.
Striped mud turtle | Diet
According to Petco, the animals are described as being somewhat unsuitable for children as they do not enjoy being held. Hobbyists have kept turtles alive for decades. The painted turtle is sometimes eaten but is not highly regarded as food, as even the largest subspecies, the western painted turtle, is inconveniently small and larger turtles are available. Schools frequently dissect painted turtles, which are sold by biological supply companies; specimens often come from the wild but may be captive-bred. In the Midwest, turtle racing is popular at summer fairs.
Painted turtle | Pets and other uses
Its diet consists of invertebrates and small fish.
White-cheeked tern | Diet
The painted turtle ("Chrysemys picta") is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The turtle is the only species of the genus "Chrysemys", which is part of the pond turtle family Emydidae. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. Four regionally based subspecies (the eastern, midland, southern, and western) evolved during the last ice age. The adult painted turtle female is long; the male is smaller. 5-6" The turtle's top shell is dark and smooth, without a ridge.
Painted turtle | Introduction
Its typical diet includes mainly small reptiles and arthropods.
Hairy-footed dunnart | Diet
Like other musk turtle species, "Staurotypus" are carnivorous, eating various types of aquatic invertebrates, as well as fish and carrion.
Staurotypus | Diet