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Pond sliders are native to the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. They are found from the southern Great Lakes region east to West Virginia, west to Indiana and Illinois and south throughout most of the South-eastern and south-central United States. The range of pond sliders continues through Mexico and Central America to Venezuela in South America. Subspecies in the United states include Trachemys scripta elegans, native to the Mississippi river valley, from Illinois, west to Kansas and Oklahoma, and south to the Gulf of Mexico, T. s. scripta, found from Virginia to northern Florida and Alabama, and T. s. troostii, found from eastern Kentucky to Georgia and Alabama |
