#1478 · 🦎 reptiles

Pond Slider

🇳🇱 Lettersierschildpad ·Trachemys scripta

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Glenn Berry · CC0
2. © Thomas Shahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Chris Evers · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Tim Guida · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Roberto Daniel Avila · CC BY 4.0
7. © Jack and Shirley Foreman · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Kala Murphy King · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © Forester Babberney · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The pond slider ( Trachemys scripta ) is a species of common, medium-sized, semiaquatic turtle. There are three subspecies, the most recognizable of which is the red-eared slider ( T. s. elegans ), which is popular in the pet trade and has been introduced to other parts of the world by people releasing it to the wild. Hatchling and juvenile pond sliders have a green upper shell (carapace), yellow bottom shell (plastron) and green and yellow stripes and markings on...

base stats

NL sightings 321iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 261,843iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 321 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #6 most seen of the reptiles in NL.
261,843 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann David Schoepff in 1792 (234 years ago).
Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.