Trachemys | |
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Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Emydidae |
Subfamily: | Deirochelyinae |
Genus: | Trachemys Agassiz, 1857 |
Synonyms | |
Calliclemys |
Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae. Members of this genus are native to the Americas, ranging from the Midwestern United States south to northern Argentina, but one subspecies, the red-eared slider (T. scripta elegans), has been introduced worldwide. Species under this genus are commonly referred to as sliders.
Species and subspecies
Extant
- Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995 – Maranhão slider
- Trachemys callirostris (Gray, 1856) – Colombian slider
- T. c. callirostris (Gray, 1856) – Colombian slider
- T. c. chichiriviche (Pritchard & Trebbau, 1984) – Venezuelan slider
- Trachemys decorata (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – Hispaniolan slider
- Trachemys decussata (Bell, 1830) – Cuban slider
- T. d. angusta (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – western Cuban slider
- T. d. decussata (Bell, 1830) – eastern Cuban slider
- Trachemys dorbigni (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835) – D'Orbigny's slider
- Trachemys emolli (Legler, 1990) – Nicaraguan slider
- Trachemys gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939) – Big Bend slider
- Trachemys hartwegi (Legler, 1990) – Nazas slider
- Trachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez, del Valle, Ceballos & Fritz, 2017 – Atrato slider
- Trachemys nebulosa (Van Denburgh, 1895) – Baja California slider
- T. n. hiltoni (Carr, 1942) – Fuerte slider
- T. n. nebulosa (Van Denburgh, 1895) – Baja California slider
- Trachemys ornata (Gray, 1830) – ornate slider
- Trachemys scripta (Thunberg, 1792) – pond slider
- T. s. elegans (Wied, 1839) – red-eared slider
- T. s. scripta (Thunberg, 1792) – yellow-bellied slider
- T. s. troostii (Holbrook, 1836) – Cumberland slider
- Trachemys stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1928) – Central Antillean slider
- T. s. malonei (Barbour & Carr, 1938) – Inagua slider
- T. s. stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1928) – Puerto Rican slider
- T. s. vicina (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – Dominican slider
- Trachemys taylori (Legler, 1960) – Cuatro Ciénegas slider
- Trachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre, 1789) – Jamaican slider
- Trachemys venusta (Gray, 1856) – Meso-American slider
- T. v. cataspila (Günther, 1885) – Huasecan slider
- T. v. grayi (Bocourt, 1868) – Gray's slider or Tehuantepec slider
- T. v. iversoni McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Yucatan slider
- T. v. panamensis McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Panamanian slider
- T. v. uhrigi McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Uhrig's slider
- T. v. venusta (Gray, 1856) – Belize slider
- Trachemys yaquia (Legler & Webb, 1970) – Yaqui slider
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
- † Trachemys inflata Weaver & Robertson, 1967 - inflated slider turtle
- † Trachemys haugrudi Jasinski, 2018 - Haugrud's slider turtle
References
- ^ 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 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007-10-31). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
- ^ 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.
- Rhodin, Anders G.J. (2021-11-15). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs. Vol. 8. Chelonian Research Foundation and Turtle Conservancy. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. ISBN 978-0-9910368-3-7. S2CID 244279960.
- 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
- ^ Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.104.
- ^ 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
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Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. Key: †=extinct. |
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