Coastal Plain Cooter vs. Pond Slider

Sliders bask beside cooters on every log in the southeast. A: Yellow stripes only, no patch behind the eye in the Coastal Plain Cooter; a red or yellow patch behind the eye (the native Yellow-bellied Slider of the southeast has a yellow one) in the Pond Slider. B: Flat, long and smooth, with upright yellow bars in the Coastal Plain Cooter; higher and more domed, rough, with saw-toothed rear edge in the Pond Slider.

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