Turtles ID please

[alfiethetortoise]

My friend has aquired two turtles and no idea which kind they are...any ideas?

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz177/arabellafigg/16250_157630267705_509367705_238479.jpg



p.s. hope i've added the link right...

 

[dmmj]

The first one looks like a yellow slider or also called cooters I beleive, the second looks like a map turtle. wait for danny to be 100% sure

 

[MeTaLerke]

The right one is a Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii, the left one i think it's a Trachemys, but i'm not sure

 

[Maggie Cummings]

looks to me like Trachemys s scripta (yellow bellies slider) and the other is G. p. psuedogeographica or false map turtle. I used to keep both of those species so I know it is hard to determine the difference in a map and a false map. Over the eyes a map has big yellow kind of florescent yellow crescent while the false map has a fragmented crescent over the eyes...
I am sure Danny will have more positive information...they are very cute hatchlings and I seriously hope they weren't collected from the wild...

 

[alfiethetortoise]

My friend got them from a pet shop, and turtles are not native to the UK so i seriously doubt that is the case... but then i don't really know an awfull lot about turtles... i like the look of the right one.

Should they be kept together or seperate? My friend says that in the shop they were all mixed together. She is also worried about them mating and laying eggs etc. How would she get around this?

 

[MeTaLerke]

ooh, they are from a shop where they are mixed together.. for sure they are G. p. psuedogeographica and Trachemys s scripta like Maggie says,
I would seperate them...

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't think the two species will interbreed, but you have quite a while before you have to worry about that. They won't be sexually mature for a few years.

Yvonne

 

[egyptiandan]

You have a Cumberland slider, Trachemys scripta troostii and a False map turtle, Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica

Very close Maggie You did good

Danny