Meso-American slider

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Meso-American slider
Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta) Madden Haag.jpg
Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Trachemys
Species:
T. venusta
Binomial name
Trachemys venusta
(Gray, 1856) [1] [2]
Synonyms [3]
Trachemys venusta venusta
  • Emys venusta
    Gray, 1856
  • Emys valida
    LeConte, 1860
  • Clemmys valida
    Strauch, 1862
  • Callichelys venusta
    — Gray, 1863
  • Emys (Clemmys) salvini
    Günther, 1885
  • Pseudemys salvini
    Cope, 1887
  • Emys valida
    Malnate, 1971
  • Pseudemys scripta venusta
    Moll & Legler, 1971
  • Chrysemys scripta venusta
    Henderson & Hoevers, 1975
  • Trachemys scripta venusta
    Iverson, 1985
  • Trachemys ornata venusta
    Walls, 1996
  • Trachemys venusta venusta
    Seidel, 2002
Trachemys venusta cataspila
  • Emys ventricosa
    Gray, 1856
  • Pseudemys ventricosa
    — Gray, 1870
  • Emys (Clemmys) cataspila
    Günther, 1885
  • Pseudemys cataspila
    — Cope, 1887
  • Chrysemys ornata var. cataspila
    Boulenger, 1889
  • Pseudemys scripta cataspila
    Carr, 1938
  • Pseudemys ornata cataspila
    Mertens & Wermuth, 1955
  • Chrysemys scripta cataspila
    H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1975
  • Trachemys scripta cataspila
    — Iverson, 1985
  • Trachemys ornata cataspila
    Fritz, 1995
  • Trachemys venusta cataspila
    — Seidel, 2002
Trachemys venusta grayi
  • Emys grayi
    Bocourt, 1868
  • Callichelys grayii
    — Gray, 1870(ex errore)
  • Emys umbra
    Bocourt, 1876
  • Pseudemys umbra
    — Cope, 1887
  • Callichelys grayi
    — Boulenger, 1889
  • Chrysemys grayi
    — Boulenger, 1889
  • Clemmys umbra
    — Strauch, 1890
  • Chrysemys umbra
    Lindholm, 1929
  • Pseudemys grayi
    — Carr, 1938
  • Pseudemys ornata grayi
    — Stuart, 1963
  • Pseudemys scripta grayi
    — Legler & Webb, 1970
  • Chrysemys scripta grayi
    — H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1975
  • Pseudemys scripta umbra
    Pritchard, 1979
  • Trachemys scripta grayi
    — Iverson, 1985
  • Trachemys grayi
    King & Burke, 1989
  • Trachemys ornata grayi
    — Walls, 1996
  • Trachemys venusta grayi
    — Seidel, 2002
Mesoamerican Slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila), Municipality of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004). Trachemys venusta cataspila, Mesoamerican Slider, Tamaulipas.jpg
Mesoamerican Slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila), Municipality of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004).

The Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta) [1] [2] is a species of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. The species is distributed from Mexico to Colombia. [2]

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Geographic range

The species Trachemys venusta is found from southeastern Mexico to northwestern Colombia. [1]

The following three new subspecies were described in 2010.

Subspecies

Nota bene : A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trachemys.

Etymology

The subspecific name, grayi, is in honor of British herpetologist John Edward Gray. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rhodin 2010, p. 000.104
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fritz 2007, pp. 210–211
  3. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 210–211. doi: 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 . S2CID   87809001.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trachemys venusta grayi, p. 107).

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