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Trachemys scripta elegans
Red-eared Slider
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Photographer: Tom Greer
ID: 0000 0000 0904 0458 (2004-09-20)Copyright © 2004 Tom Greer tbphotos@comcast.net
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Sep 20, 2004
location
Cosumnes River Preserve (Sacramento County, California, US)family
Emydidae
notes Regrettably the lateral view of a basking turtle dated 2004, bearing # 0000 0000 0904 0458 and identified as a western pond turtle Clemmys marmorata is a red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, unfortunately a widespread feral species in California (and many places elsewhere in the temperate and tropical world. Please remove it from page 12 of the section devoted to California's one unequivocally native aquatic chelonian. Sincerely yours, James Buskirk field associate in herpetology, California Academy of Sciencescamera Canon 10d
contributor's ID # 2494 photo category: Animal - Reptile
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANIMAL
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Red-eared Slider (ITIS )
Red-eared Slider (photographer)
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