Western Pond Turtle has a smooth upper shell that is around 4 to 9 inches long and varies from brown to black with faint marbling patterns and their lower shell is black and yellow. Their head and legs are dark-colored, and adult males have a light yellow throat. Western pond turtles can be found along the coast of Washington, Oregon, and California. They prefer sheltered aquatic habitats, like undercut banks, submerged vegetation, rocks, logs, and mud banks, but can adapt to many other kinds of habitats, including slow-moving rivers and streams, lakes, wetlands, ponds, and even sewage treatment plants, especially during summer and winter. They can also be found in habitats higher up on land. Western pond turtles can feed on a wide variety of animals, including aquatic insects, grasshoppers, flies, beetles, fish, worms, crustaceans, and amphibians. Although not as common, they can also feed on aquatic plants. Sometime between late May and mid-July, females dig a nest in an area of dry soil and scattered vegetation. After laying 3 to 13 eggs, they fill the nest with vegetation, dirt, and lastly wet soil. The young hatch after around 90 to 130 days. Western pond turtles cannot swallow food in the air, only in water. Western pond turtles are very shy and will often retreat into the water at the slightest disturbance.

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