Appearance
Adults of "T. gaigeae" have a straight carapace length of 5 to 11 inches.Naming
The epithet, "gaigeae", is in honor of American herpetologist Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige, who collected the first specimen in the Big Bend region of Texas in 1928.Behavior
Primarily aquatic, the Big Bend slider is often seen basking on rocks or logs in the water, and when approached quickly dives to the bottom. The only time it spends a large amount of time on land is when females emerge to lay eggs. It is an omnivorous species, with younger animals being more carnivorous, and progressively becoming more herbivorous as they age, with older adults being nearly entirely herbivorous.References:
Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia.
