Trachemys

Short description: Genus of turtles

Trachemys

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

Calliclemys[1][2]
Redemys[1][2]

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).

## Contents

* 1 Species and subspecies
* 1.1 Extant
* 1.2 Fossil
* 2 References
* 3 Further reading
* 4 External links

## 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]
* T. s. elegans (Wied, 1839) – red-eared slider[1]
* T. s. scripta (Thunberg, 1792) – yellow-bellied slider[1]
* T. s. troostii (Holbrook, 1836) – Cumberland 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[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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ 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. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.104.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Fritz & Havaš 2007, pp. 210-211.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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

* University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web | Genus Trachemys (sliders)

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