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My friend caught a hatchling red belly today. I'm not too familiar with red bellies; only enough to identify it as such. However, it does appear to my untrained eye that his carapace patern is especially meso-american-ish and his plastron has no pattern what so ever.
What do you peeps think?
im not sure if this code will work; if it dosent, i'll post the pictures again in comments or you can just go to http://photobucket.com/albums/v211/Nick_the_cuban/?addtype=web&multi=2.
-Nick
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sorry, i accidentally posted the last one twice and forgot about this one.
Nice little turtle.. The unmarked plastron is normal.
Matt
Actually red bellies are supposed to have some black spots on the bottom. Looks like a pennisula cooter to me. 
I pretty sure that head is a red belly.
I raised a cltuch of red-bellies from eggs...they all started with spots on there plastron, and now (6 months later) none have any design on the bottom...it is probably a hatchling fomr last years hatch. They also all had that design, they were found in MD. Good luck!
That looks like a hybrid between a peninsula cooter and a redbelly. These are fairly common down here in south Florida and I would assume elsewhere when the two are found together. The pattern on the head is intermediate between the two. The carapace pattern is peninsularis
The head pattern and plastron are typical for Pseudemys nelsoni. They are very attractive as juveniles.
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