Short description : Genus of turtles
Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae .[ 1] 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 .
Two red-eared sliders basking at Captain Falcon Park in Corpus Christi, Texas (15 April 2016).
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]
T. c. callirostris (Gray, 1856) – Colombian slider[ 1]
T. c. chichiriviche (Pritchard & Trebbau, 1984) – Venezuelan slider[ 1]
Trachemys decorata (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – Hispaniolan slider [ 1]
Trachemys decussata (Bell, 1830) – Cuban slider [ 1]
T. d. angusta (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – western Cuban slider[ 1]
T. d. decussata (Bell, 1830) – eastern Cuban slider[ 1]
Trachemys dorbigni (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835) – D'Orbigny's slider [ 1]
Trachemys emolli (Legler, 1990) – Nicaraguan slider [ 1]
Trachemys gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939) – Big Bend slider [ 1]
Trachemys hartwegi (Legler, 1990) – Nazas slider [ 1] [ 4]
Trachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez, del Valle, Ceballos & Fritz, 2017 – Atrato slider [ 5]
Trachemys nebulosa (Van Denburgh, 1895) – Baja California slider [ 1]
T. n. hiltoni (Carr, 1942) – Fuerte slider[ 1]
T. n. 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]
Trachemys taylori (Legler, 1960) – Cuatro Ciénegas slider [ 1]
Trachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre, 1789) – Jamaican slider [ 1]
Trachemys venusta (Gray, 1856) – Meso-American slider [ 6] [ 7]
T. v. cataspila (Günther, 1885) – Huasecan slider[ 6] [ 7]
T. v. grayi (Bocourt, 1868) – Gray's slider or Tehuantepec slider[ 6] [ 7] [ 3]
T. v. iversoni McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Yucatan slider[ 6]
T. v. panamensis McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Panamanian slider[ 6]
T. v. uhrigi McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Uhrig's slider[ 6]
T. v. venusta (Gray, 1856) – Belize slider[ 6] [ 7]
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
† Trachemys inflata Weaver & Robertson, 1967 - inflated slider turtle[ 8]
† Trachemys haugrudi Jasinski, 2018 - Haugrud's slider turtle[ 9]
References
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 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" . http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v3_2010.pdf .
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007-10-31). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" . http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf .
↑ 3.0 3.1 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 .
↑ 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. 8 . Chelonian Research Foundation and Turtle Conservancy. doi :10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021 . ISBN 978-0-9910368-3-7 . http://dx.doi.org/10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021 .
↑ 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
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Rhodin et al. 2010 , p. 000.104.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 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" (in en-US). Doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University . https://www.proquest.com/openview/413e4497f3a2abe0f5966268ece46bf3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y .
↑ 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" (in en). PeerJ 6 : e4338. doi :10.7717/peerj.4338 . ISSN 2167-8359 . 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
Wikidata ☰ Q385417 entry
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