Franco Banfi / Freshwater turtle (Trachemys scripta venusta) swimming amongst Water lilies leaves, Gran Cenote, near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

Alex Mustard / Suwanee freshwater turtle (Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis) swimming beneath trees in a freshwater spring. Devil Spring, Ginnie Springs, High Springs, Florida, USA

Claudio Contreras / Mesoamerican slider turtle / terrapin (Trachemys scripta venusta) in sinkhole, Cenote Carwash, near Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, January

Claudio Contreras / Mesoamerican slider turtle / terrapin (Trachemys scripta venusta) in sinkhole, Cenote Carwash, near Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, January

Andy Rouse / Krefft's River Turtle (Emydura macquarii krefftii) at surface of in rainforest pond, Queensland, Australia

Rolf Nussbaumer / Portrait of Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) with head retracted into shell. Sinton, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend, Texas Coast, USA

Edwin Giesbers / European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis), Lesbos, Greece

Edwin Giesbers / European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis), swimming with head above water, Lesbos, Greece

Wild Wonders of Europe / Geidema / Three European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) and a Balkan terrapin (Mauremys rivulata) on a rock surrounded by water, Butrint, Albania, June 2009 WWE OUTDOOR EXHIBITION.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Ziegler / European pond terrapin (Emys orbicularis) in water, The Peloponnese, Greece, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Ziegler / Balkan terrapin (Mauremys rivulata) swimming, The Peloponnese, Greece, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Smit / European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) at base of tree, Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve, Serbia, June 2009