Although I am not sure what it is I am positive that this turtle is not a slider of any sort, but a map turtle. The head shape is quite dissimilar from that of a slider, the central scutes are strongly keeled, the rear marginal and supracaudal scutes are jagged like those of a map turtle. Besides the fact that it is black this turtle looks nothing like a melanistic slider.

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