Chicken Turtle vs. Pond Slider

They share shallow ponds and swamps across the Southeast and far southeastern Oklahoma. A: Very long and thin, nearly as long as the shell in the Chicken Turtle; of ordinary length in the Pond Slider. B: Thin yellow stripes, no patch behind the eye in the Chicken Turtle; a red (in the west) or yellow patch behind the eye in the Pond Slider. C: Narrow and finely wrinkled, with a faint net of pale lines in the Chicken Turtle; broad, with yellow bars or stripes on each side plate in the Pond Slider. The Chicken Turtle also has striped 'trousers': bold vertical yellow stripes on the back of the hind legs.

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