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20-12-2010, 07:25 PM
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Help with I.D.?
This is a baby photo, but it is the only one I have.
 Also, I've been assuming this un is a yellow bellied slider?   Thanks! |
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21-12-2010, 04:15 PM
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odds are... Yellow Bellied Slider.
I don't know if you intentionally did it but the shot over the reflective glass for an ID photo is pricless. It gives you the bottom and top information in one shot.
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21-12-2010, 05:01 PM
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The first one is a map turtle, Graptemys genus. Can't tell the species without a head picture and a plastron (bottom shell) picture.
Sorry Ed, the second one isn't a slider but a cooter. It looks like a Eastern river cooter, Pseudemys concinna concinna, to me. Danny
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21-12-2010, 05:25 PM
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could be... but the odds are...
What do you think the odds are that a river cooter makes it to the UK. Also... the way I read it that is a sequence of photos of one specific turtle. Quote:
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21-12-2010, 05:32 PM
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Pretty good
 I've seen quite a few River cooters in the UK. Also quite a few Florida redbellies. There are though plenty of Yellow-bellied sliders too. Yellow-belly sliders though have a large yellow splotch behind their eye and a yellow plastron with 2 to 4 spots. This turtle has neither of those. Danny
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21-12-2010, 05:42 PM
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The first one is a Map - but we need to see its head. The second is a River Cooter, but not sure which one though, definitely not a YBS!
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21-12-2010, 05:44 PM
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You're kinda right... I was going on odds but it does key out to Chrysemys c. hieroglyphica
just realized it is 2 different turtles. Quote:
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