52. CHRVSEMYS 



226. Chrysemys marginata bellii (Gray) 

 Western Painted Turtle 



Emys Bella Gray, Syn. Rept. Griffith's An. Kingd., 1831, p. 31 (type 

 locality, America?) ; Dumeril & Bibron, Erpet. Generale, Vol. II, 



1835, p. 302; Gray, Cat. Tort. Croc. Amphis. Brit. Mus., 1844, 



p. 27. 

 Emys Oregotiiensis Harlan, Amer. Journ. Sci., Vol. XXXI, 1837, p. 382, 



pi. (type locality, ponds near Columbia River); Holbrook, 



N. Amer. Herp., Ed. 2, Vol. I, 1842, p. 107, pi. XVI. 

 Chrysemys bellii Gray, Cat. Shield Rept., Vol. I, 1855, P- 32i\ Agassiz, 



Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S., 1857, Vol. I, p. 439, Vol. II, pi. VI, figs. 



8, 9; Hay, Batrachia and Reptilia Indiana, 1892, p. 186; 



Hurter, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Vol. VI, 1892, p. 186; Van 



Denburgh, Occas. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. V, 1897, p. 22\ Dit- 



MARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 23y p'- XIII, fig. i. 

 Chrysemys oregonensis Holbrook, N. Amer. Herpetology, Ed. 2, Vol. I, 



1842, p. 107; Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S., 1857, Vol. I, p. 440, 



Vol. II, pi. Ill, figs. 1-3; Baird, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. II, 



1859, Rept., p. 4; Cope, Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terrs., 1871, 



(1872), p. 468; Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, p. 53; 



Yarrow, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 583. 

 Chrysemys nuttalii Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S., 1857, Vol. II, p. 



642 (new name for C. oregoniensis). 

 Clemmys oregoniensis Strauch, Mem Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. 7, 



Vol. V, No. 7, 1862, p. 114. 

 Chrysemys cinerea bellii Boulenger, Cat. Chelonians Brit. Mus., 1889, 



p. 74; SiEBENROCK, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. 10, Heft 3, 1909, p. 461. 

 Chrysemys belli True, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 35; Cragin, 



Bull. Washburn Laborat., Vol. I, 1885, p. loi; Hurter, Trans. 



Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Vol. XX, 191 1, p. 236; Ellis & Henderson, 



Univ. Colorado Studies, Vol. X, No. 2, 1913, p. 115; Ellis & 



Henderson, Univ. Colorado Bull., Vol. XV, No. 6, 1915, p. 263; 



Dice, Univ. Cal. Pubis. Zoo!., Vol. 16, No. 17, 1916, p. 306. 

 Chrysemys marginata bellii Stejneger& Barbour, Check List N. Amer. 



Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 118; Blanchard, Copeia, 1921, No. 90, p. 6. 



Description. — Shell comparatively narrow, depressed but 

 not very low, without dorsal keel. Vertebrals five, usually 

 longer than broad. Costals four, first longest, second high- 



