Red-eared slider x yellow-bellied slider

Red-eared slider x yellow-bellied slider
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Subclass: Anapsida
Order: Testudines
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Trachemys
Species: T. scripta
Subspecies: T. s. elegans x T. s. scripta

The red-eared slider x yellow-bellied slider (Trachemys scripta elegans x Trachemys scripta scripta)[1] is an intergradation of a red-eared slider and yellow-bellied slider sub-species.[2] On the side of its head where a normal yellow-bellied slider would have solid yellow, there will be some red mixed in. The bottom of its shell is a bright yellow with varying amounts of black dots. In the wild it eats minnows, plants, carrion, snails and insects that fall in the water.

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