Trachemys
Trachemys | |
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Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Emydidae |
Subfamily: | Deirochelyinae |
Genus: | Trachemys Agassiz, 1857[1][2][3] |
Synonyms | |
Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae.[1] The genus Trachemys is native to the Americas, ranging from the United States to northern Argentina. Species under this genus are commonly referred to as sliders.
Two red-eared sliders basking at Captain Falcon Park in Corpus Christi, Texas (15 April 2016).
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Trachemys_venusta_cataspila%2C_Mesoamerican_Slider%2C_Tamaulipas.jpg/330px-Trachemys_venusta_cataspila%2C_Mesoamerican_Slider%2C_Tamaulipas.jpg)
Mesoamerican slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila) in Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004).
Species and subspecies[]
Extant[]
- Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995 – Maranhão slider[1]
- Trachemys callirostris (Gray, 1856) – Colombian slider[1]
- Trachemys decorata (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – Hispaniolan slider[1]
- Trachemys decussata (Bell, 1830) – Cuban slider[1]
- Trachemys dorbigni (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835) – D'Orbigny's slider[1]
- Trachemys emolli (, 1990) – Nicaraguan slider[1]
- Trachemys gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939) – Big Bend slider[1]
- Trachemys medemi , , & , 2017 – Atrato slider[4]
- Trachemys nebulosa (Van Denburgh, 1895) – Baja California slider[1]
- Trachemys ornata (Gray, 1830) – ornate slider[1]
- Trachemys scripta (Thunberg, 1792) – pond slider[1]
- Trachemys stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1928) – Central Antillean slider[1]
- T. s. malonei (Barbour & Carr, 1938) – Inagua slider[1]
- T. s. stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1928) – Puerto Rican slider[1]
- T. s. vicina (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – Dominican slider[1]
- Trachemys taylori (Legler, 1960) – Cuatro Ciénegas slider[1]
- Trachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre, 1789) – Jamaican slider[1]
- Trachemys venusta (Gray, 1856) – Meso-American slider[5][6]
- Trachemys yaquia (Legler & Webb, 1970) – Yaqui slider[1]
Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trachemys.
Fossil[]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b Harfush-Meléndez, Martha; Buskirk, James R. (2008-07-29). "New Distributional Data on the Tehuantepec Slider, Trachemys grayi, in Oaxaca, Mexico". Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 7 (2): 274–276. doi:10.2744/CCB-0710.1. S2CID 86009087.
- ^ Vargas-Ramírez, Mario; del Valle, Carlos; Ceballos, Claudia P.; Fritz, Uwe (2017). "Trachemys medemi n. sp. from northwestern Colombia turns the biogeography of South American slider turtles". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 55 (4): 326-339. doi:10.1111/jzs.12179
- ^ a b c d e f g Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.104.
- ^ a b c d Fritz & Havaš 2007, pp. 210-211.
- ^ Jasinski, Steve (May 2013). "Fossil Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae) from the Late Hemphillian of Eastern Tennessee and Its Implications for the Evolution of the Emydidae". Doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ Jasinski, Steven E. (2018-02-13). "A new slider turtle (Testudines: Emydidae: Deirochelyinae: Trachemys) from the late Hemphillian (late Miocene/early Pliocene) of eastern Tennessee and the evolution of the deirochelyines". PeerJ. 6: e4338. doi:10.7717/peerj.4338. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5815335. PMID 29456887.
Further reading[]
- Agassiz L (1857). Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. I. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. li + 452 pp. (Trachemys, new genus, p. 434).
External links[]
Categories:
- Trachemys
- Turtle genera
- Turtles of North America
- Turtles of South America
- Taxa named by Louis Agassiz