Black-bellied Slider
Trachemys dorbigni
- Class
- Reptile
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,490
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
Description
D'Orbigny's slider (Trachemys dorbigni) also commonly known as the black-bellied slider, and in Brazil as tartaruga-tigre or tartaruga-tigre-d'água (which mean "tiger turtle" and "water tiger turtle" in Portuguese), is a species of water turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is found in southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, and Uruguay.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “D'Orbigny's slider”.