What Subspecies Are My Turtles?
answer: They are Cumberland sliders. Here is a good way to distinguish them from YBSs. Cumberland's head markings are much like RESs, but the prominent stripe is usually yellow as apposed to red or orange. They may also have another somewhat prominent horizontal stripe further below. YBSs, especially hatchlings and juveniles, always have a prominent vertical "crescent" marking behind the eye. They may also have one or two prominant horizontal stripes which may or may not connect with the crescent markings.
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Typical head markings of small Cumberlands.
http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/world_o…Typical markings of small RBSs (cresent doesn't connect to horizontal "ear" stripe).
http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/world_o…Less typical with RBSs (crescent connects with "ear"stripe). I've caught hundreds of RBSs in northern Florida and I've never seen this myself (only in photos).
http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/world_o…For more comparisons.
http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/world_o…For some reason all of your photos wont open for me but from what I can see it looks like a Yellow Bellied.
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Side note - how do you get a pet and not know what it is.
Earthling is right (of course). Your turtles lack the red "ear" markings of the RES and the YBS have the black spots only on the front half of the lower shell.
Red eared slider. The babies start off very bright, but darken with age. The spots on the underside of the carapace fit that of a hatchling red eared slider.
I have the same Turtle?
It's a Yellow bellied slider :D
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