Slider Trachemys scripta  (Thunberg in Schoepff, 1792)
A partially melanistic adult specimen from the panhandle of Florida Image © Suzanne L. Collins, 2005
References:
	Rhodin, Anders G. J. & John L. Carr. 2009. A quarter millenium of uses and misuses of the turtle name Testudo scabra: Identification of the type specimens of T. scabra Linnaeus 1758 (= Rhinoclemmys punctularia) and T. scripta Thunberg in Schoepff 1792 (= Trachemys scripta scripta). Zootaxa. 2226: pp. 1-18.