Trachemys

Trachemys Temporal range: Late Miocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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).

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. panamensisMcCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Panamanian slider ^[6]
  • T. v. uhrigiMcCord, 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 shell of T. inflata , Florida Museum of Natural History

Fossil

• † Trachemys inflata Weaver & Robertson, 1967 - inflated slider turtle ^[8]
• † Trachemys haugrudi Jasinski, 2018 - Haugrud's slider turtle ^[9]

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 2011-07-17. 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 2011-05-01. 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. 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.
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 Research55 (4): 326-339. doi : 10.1111/jzs.12179
6. Rhodin et al. 2010 , p. 000.104.
7. 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". Doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
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". 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)