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.
| Trachemys | |
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| Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Emydidae |
| Subfamily: | Deirochelyinae |
| Genus: | Trachemys Agassiz, 1857[1][2][3] |
| Synonyms | |
Species and subspecies
editExtant
edit- 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
edit- † Trachemys inflata Weaver & Robertson, 1967 - inflated slider turtle[8]
- † Trachemys haugrudi Jasinski, 2018 - Haugrud's slider turtle[9]
References
edit- ^ 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 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
edit- 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).