Skin colour Painted Turtle
peer reviewed
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
No inheritance mode has been recorded for Skin colour, so no offspring odds are given. Guessing one would be worse than saying nothing: a breeder would plan a season on it.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph.
- Assessing the impact of environment on the color of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) in the wild. — Ecol Evol 2025