Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) - April 2011 CA

Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) - April 2011 CA The red-eared slider is a subspecies of pond slider. Native only to the southern United States, it has become established elsewhere because of pet releases and is invasive in many introduced areas, like California, where it out-competes the native western pond turtle. paraphrased from Wikipedia