Editing Red-eared slider (section)

{{short description|Subspecies of turtle}}
{{use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{subspeciesbox
| name = Red-eared slider
| image = RedEaredSlider05.jpg
| image_caption = At the [[Cincinnati Zoo]]
| image2 = Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied) (1865) by Karl Bodmer.jpg
| image2_caption = 1865 engraving by [[Karl Bodmer]], who accompanied the authority on his expedition
| status_system = 
| status_ref = 
| genus = Trachemys
| species = scripta
| species_link = Pond slider
| subspecies = elegans
| authority = ([[Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied|Wied-Neuwied]], 1839)
| synonyms = *''Emys elegans'' <br>{{small|Wied-Neuwied, 1839}}
*''Emys holbrookii'' <br>{{small|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1844}}
*''Emys sanguinolenta'' <br>{{small|Gray, 1856}}
*''Trachemys elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz]], 1857}}
*''Clemmys elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[Alexander Strauch|Strauch]], 1862}}
*''Trachemys holbrooki'' [sic] <br>{{small|— Gray, 1863}} ''([[ex errore]])''
*''Trachemys holbrookii'' <br>{{small|— Gray, 1869}}
*''Trachemys lineata'' <br>{{small|Gray, 1873}}
*''Pseudemys elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1875}}
*''Chrysemys elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1889}}
*''Chrysemys scripta'' var. ''elegans'' <br>{{small|— Boulenger, 1889}}
*''Chrysemys palustris elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm|Lindholm]], 1929}}
*''Pseudemys troostii elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]] & [[Thomas Barbour|Barbour]], 1939}}
*''Pseudemys scripta elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[Fred Ray Cagle|Cagle]], 1944}}
*''Trachemys scripta elegans'' <br>{{small|— [[John B. Iverson|Iverson]], 1985}}
*''Trachemys scripta elagans'' [sic] <br>{{small| [[Ansel Fong G.|Fong]], [[James F. Parham|Parham]] & [[Jin-zhong Fu|Fu]], 2002}} <br>''(ex errore)''
*''Trachemys scripta elgans'' [sic] <br>{{small| Fong, Parham & Fu, 2002}} <br>''(ex errore)''
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=Fritz2007>{{cite journal |author=Fritz Uwe |author2=Peter Havaš |year=2007 |title=Checklist of Chelonians of the World |journal=Vertebrate Zoology |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=207–208 |doi=10.3897/vz.57.e30895 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| range_map = Range of the sub species Red eared slider (Trachemys Scripta Elegans).png
| range_map_caption = The US native range ''T. s. elegans''
}}

The '''red-eared slider''' or '''red-eared terrapin''' ('''''Trachemys scripta elegans''''') is a subspecies of the [[pond slider]] (''Trachemys scripta''), a semiaquatic [[turtle]] belonging to the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Emydidae]]. It is the most popular pet turtle in the United States, also popular as a pet across the rest of the world, and is the most [[Invasive species|invasive]] turtle.<ref name="principal">{{cite web |author=Boylan Sánchez, Efrén |date=July–August 2003  |title=Las Tortugas |publisher=Ed. Antártida |url=http://editorial.selfip.com/inicio/productos/aquaguia/aqua_2003/jul_agos_03/pags/tortugas.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=20 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620073234/http://editorial.selfip.com/inicio/productos/aquaguia/aqua_2003/jul_agos_03/pags/tortugas.htm |archive-date=20 June 2008}}</ref> It is the most commonly traded turtle in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Senda tuxtlas |department=Especies |website=Acuario de Veracruz |url=http://www.acuariodeveracruz.com/senda_tuxtlas_ESPECIES.html |access-date=21 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704111626/http://www.acuariodeveracruz.com/senda_tuxtlas_ESPECIES.html |archive-date=4 July 2007}}</ref><ref name=Herrel-vdMeijden-2014-04>{{cite journal |last1=Herrel |first1=Anthony |last2={{nobr|van der Meijden}} |first2=Arie |date=2014-04-01 |title=An analysis of the live reptile and amphibian trade in the USA compared to the global trade in endangered species |journal=The Herpetological Journal |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=103–110 |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bhs/thj/2014/00000024/00000002/art00005}}</ref>

The red-eared slider is native to the [[Midwestern United States]] and northern [[Mexico]], but has become established in other places because of pet releases, and has become invasive in many areas where it outcompetes native species. The red-eared slider is included in the [[list of globally invasive species|list of the world's 100&nbsp;most invasive species]].{{refn|name=Lowe-Browne-etal-2000| {{cite report |author1=Lowe, S. |author2=Browne, M. |author3=Boudjelas, S. |year=2000 |title=100 of the world's worst invasive alien species: A selection from the Global Invasive Species Database |department=IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) |place=Auckland, New Zealand |publisher=[[International Union for Conservation of Nature]]}}<br/>See also updated edition: Lowe, Browne, ''et al''. (2004).<ref name=Lowe-Browne-etal-2004-11/>}}