Trachemys

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.

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).

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]

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]
  • T. g. gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939) – Big Bend slider[1]
  • T. g. hartwegi (Legler, 1990) – Nazas slider[1]
• Trachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez, del Valle, Ceballos & Fritz, 2017 – Atrato slider[4]
• 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[5][6]
  • T. v. cataspila (Günther, 1885) – Huasecan slider[5][6]
  • T. v. grayi (Bocourt, 1868) – Gray's slider or Tehuantepec slider[5][6][3]
  • T. v. iversoni McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Yucatan slider[5]
  • T. v. panamensis McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Panamanian slider[5]
  • T. v. uhrigi McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Uhrig's slider[5]
  • T. v. venusta (Gray, 1856) – Belize 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

• † Trachemys inflata Weaver & Robertson, 1967 - inflated slider turtle[7]
• † Trachemys haugrudi Jasinski, 2018 - Haugrud's slider turtle[8]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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
5. Rhodin 2010, p. 000.104. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRhodin2010 (help)
6. Fritz 2007, pp. 210-211. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFFritz2007 (help)
7. 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.
8. 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

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