Cuatro Ciénegas slider
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Conservation status
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Emydidae |
| Genus: | Trachemys |
| Species: | T. taylori
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| Trachemys taylori | |
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The Cuatro Ciénegas slider (Trachemys taylori)[2][3] is a species of turtle belonging to the genus Trachemys of the family Emydidae.
Etymology[]
The specific name, taylori, is in honor of American herpetologist Edward Harrison Taylor.[4]
Geographic range[]
T. taylori is endemic to the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in the Coahuila state in northeastern Mexico.[3][2]
Habitat[]
The preferred natural habitat of T. taylori is freshwater wetlands.[1]
Conservation status[]
T. taylori is an endangered species.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b van Dijk PP, Flores-Villela O (2007). "Trachemys taylori (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63662A97431374. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63662A12693739.en. Downloaded on 9 August 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.104
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Fritz & Havaš 2007, p. 209.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trachemys taylori, p. 261).
Bibliography[]
- Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007-10-31). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
Further reading[]
- Legler JM (1960). "A New Subspecies of Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, México". Univ. Kansas Pub. Mus. Nat. Hist. 13 (3): 73–84. (Pseudemys scripta taylori, new subspecies).
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- IUCN Red List endangered species
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- Endemic fauna of Mexico
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- Turtles of North America
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