Help Identify this turtle

[Vinman]

I person in found this turtle in a box outside the local library I thought it was a red ear slider but it don't have red markings on the neck and the shell is very ornate.

Can anyone identify it.

 

[Nanci]

There's something called a yellow belly slider...

 

[Vinman]

yea it might be one of the cooter's

 

[BloodyBaroness]

Yellow Belly Slider for sure. I bred these for a little while. They are neat little turtles.

 

[Vinman]

but do they have markings on the bottom shell

 

[Nanci]

???Yellow-bellied sliders are often confused with Eastern River Cooters, who also have yellow stripes on the neck and yellow undersides, but the latter lack the green spots characteristic to T. scripta scripta and the yellow belly often has a "s" like yellow stripe on its face.

 

[Vinman]

so which one do you think it is

 

[Nanci]

Cooter hatchlings look like the carapace is more keeled.

 

[Vinman]

Nanci which one do you think it is

 

[BloodyBaroness]

but do they have markings on the bottom shell

I had some clutches with lots markings on the underside and some with none at all. Those markings are most obvious when the turtles are hatchlings. All those swirls on the carapace and most of those belly marking will fade away.

It still "might" be a cooter, but the carapace shape looks wrong.

The markings on the belly can stay as they mature.

 

[Vinman]

thank you can it be a hybrid????

 

[BloodyBaroness]

thank you can it be a hybrid????

Hmmm.... it is possible, and I have seen people selling cooter/slider hybrids before.

The care is not really any different between them.

Maybe see what the belly patterns and carapace patterns do as it ages.

 

[Vinman]

thank you for all your help rep points given to both of you

 

[BloodyBaroness]

Thank you! If decide not to keep it, you can send it home with Limey at the next NY show and I'll happily take care of the little fella.

 

[inluvwithmycorns]

Idk but he's super cute!

 

[Vinman]

It is not my animal. Did Limey move to NC ??? I thought he was from Long Island

 

[BloodyBaroness]

It is not my animal. Did Limey move to NC ??? I thought he was from Long Island

Yep, Limey is right near me. Not 100% sure how long he has been down here, but at least a year or two. He did live on Long Island (I think) before he moved.

 

[Vinman]

thanx !!!!