Slider

Weight

900 g – 1.85 kgsrc for Weight

Length

up to 26.4 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

30 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

75 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Egg incubation

67.9 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

8.4src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

4 years – 7.99 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

2src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Aquaticsrc for Lifestyle

Brain mass

738 mgsrc for Brain mass

Resting metabolic rate

28.9 mWsrc for Resting metabolic rate

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderTestudines
5. familyEmydidae
6. genusTrachemys
7. SpeciesTrachemys scripta (Thunberg, 1792)

Synonyms Chrysemys scripta, Emys cumberlandensis, Emys elegans, Emys holbrooki, Emys sanguinolenta, Emys troosti, Emys vittata, Pseudemys elegans, Pseudemys grayi, Pseudemys scripta, Testudo scabra, Testudo scripta, Testudo serrata, Trachemys lineata

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidataWoRMS

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• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• AnimalTraits: a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size · CC0 1.0 · 1.0.7
  Herberstein, M.E., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E. et al. (2022) AnimalTraits: a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data 9: 265. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01364-9. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6468938
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
  Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
• ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
  Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).

@misc{slider_2026,
  title = {Slider (Trachemys scripta)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/slider},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}