Product Description
Our Realistic Red-eared Slider Turtle This realistic red-eared slider turtle toy feels like it has actual skin and a lifelike inside. The shell (carapace and plastron) are slightly flexible but still firm. It is wonderfully proportioned, 5 inches long. The head does not move but its legs and tail are flexible. Our beautiful plastic red-eared slider turtle will fit nicely into reports about estuaries, swamps, ponds and lakes or about reptiles. Our red-eared slider turtle model may be useful for many other school projects, as part of an educational display or as a novelty item. Check out our other turtle and reptile or amphibian toys and gifts.
The red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), also known as the red-eared terrapin, is a semiaquatic turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. It is a subspecies of the pond slider. It is the most popular pet turtle in the United States and is also popular as a pet in the rest of the world. It has, therefore, become the most commonly traded turtle in the world. It is native to the southern United States and northern Mexico, but has become established in other places because of pet releases, and has become an invasive species in many areas, where it outcompetes native species. The red-eared slider is included in the list of the world's 100 most invasive species published by the IUCN.