Big Bend Slider vs. Rio Grande Cooter
Both are big basking turtles of the Rio Grande system; they meet in the Big Bend of Texas. A: A big orange spot edged black in the Big Bend Slider; thin yellow stripes only, no spot in the Rio Grande Cooter. B: Eye-like rings with net lines in the Big Bend Slider; bull's-eye rings: several dark and pale rings, one inside another in the Rio Grande Cooter.
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