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Photograph of a painted turtle swimming in brown-green water with its head raised above the surface and the remainder of its body visible below the surface. The turtle is facing slightly right with its head turned further to the right leaving one eye visible, its body foreshortened behind it, and its leg stretched out to either side with its clawed feet splayed wide to tread water. Western painted turtle have green, plated upper shells with orange-red markings along the edges, an orange-red underside with a dark green pattern running down the middle, a dark green head with bright yellow stripes and markings, yellow eyes with dark pupils and a dark green stripe across the eye, flat, wide, heavily textured green legs with bright yellow stripes and markings and long, sharp claws, and a dark green tail with bright yellow stripes and markings.