Need an answer: Can anyone identify what kind of turtle this is. I took it in Costa Rica.

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Dec 29, 2020 13:16:05 #

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

Can anyone identify what kind of turtle this is.
I took it in Costa Rica.

Dec 29, 2020 13:55:55 #

Busbum Loc: 85367

Charles,
It looks like a red eared slider turtle;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eared_slider

Dec 29, 2020 14:20:45 #

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Dunno - but that's a super shot!

Dec 29, 2020 17:14:37 #

DocDav Loc: IN

Coloration looks like the red eared slider but with the head turned that way, the red markings to confirm are not apparent. Either way, great catch

Dec 30, 2020 10:13:08 #

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

Looks like a hungry turtle to me.

Dec 30, 2020 10:25:02 #

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Looks like a grownup version of the little turtles one could buy in the five & dime stores when I was a kid.

Stan

Dec 30, 2020 14:41:04 #

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Red Eared Sliders were indigenous to mostly eastern North America.
They are now classified as a globally invasive species.

https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/61560

Dec 30, 2020 15:20:13 #

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

Busbum wrote:

Charles,
It looks like a red eared slider turtle;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eared_slider

👍🏼👍🏼

Dec 30, 2020 16:33:32 #

Mike Foster

We always called them a painted turtle. Got lots of them in Virginia. Great picture.

Dec 30, 2020 20:35:36 #

docdish Loc: Saint Petersburg, FL

Red eared slider. The butterfly is very attracted to the sodium in the turtle’s tears.

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