Trachemys

Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae.<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/> 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.

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Two red-eared sliders basking at Captain Falcon Park in Corpus Christi, Texas (15 April 2016).

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Mesoamerican slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila) in Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004).

Species and subspecies

Extant

• Trachemys adiutrix Template:Small – Maranhão slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys callirostris Template:Small – Colombian slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. c. callirostris Template:Small – Colombian slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. c. chichiriviche Template:Small – Venezuelan slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys decorata Template:Small – Hispaniolan slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys decussata Template:Small – Cuban slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. d. angusta Template:Small – western Cuban slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. d. decussata Template:Small – eastern Cuban slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys dorbigni Template:Small – D'Orbigny's slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys emolli Template:Small – Nicaraguan slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys gaigeae Template:Small – Big Bend slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys hartwegi Template:Small – Nazas slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Trachemys medemi Template:Small – Atrato slider<ref>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. {{#invoke:doi|main}}</ref>
• Trachemys nebulosa Template:Small – Baja California slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. n. hiltoni Template:Small – Fuerte slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. n. nebulosa Template:Small – Baja California slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys ornata Template:Small – ornate slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys scripta Template:Small – pond slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. s. elegans Template:Small – red-eared slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. s. scripta Template:Small – yellow-bellied slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. s. troostii Template:Small – Cumberland slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys stejnegeri Template:Small – Central Antillean slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. s. malonei Template:Small – Inagua slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. s. stejnegeri Template:Small – Puerto Rican slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
  • T. s. vicina Template:Small – Dominican slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys taylori Template:Small – Cuatro Ciénegas slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys terrapen Template:Small – Jamaican slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>
• Trachemys venusta Template:Small – Meso-American slider<ref name="Rhodin104">Template:Harnvb</ref><ref name="Fritz210-1">Template:Harnvb</ref>
  • T. v. cataspila Template:Small – Huasecan slider<ref name="Rhodin104"/><ref name="Fritz210-1"/>
  • T. v. grayi Template:Small – Gray's slider or Tehuantepec slider<ref name="Rhodin104"/><ref name="Fritz210-1"/><ref name="Harfush-Meléndez"/>
  • T. v. iversoni Template:Small – Yucatan slider<ref name="Rhodin104"/>
  • T. v. panamensis Template:Small – Panamanian slider<ref name="Rhodin104"/>
  • T. v. uhrigi Template:Small – Uhrig's slider<ref name="Rhodin104"/>
  • T. v. venusta Template:Small – Belize slider<ref name="Rhodin104"/><ref name="Fritz210-1"/>
• Trachemys yaquia Template:Small – Yaqui slider<ref name="Rhodin102-4"/>

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.

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Fossil shell of T. inflata, Florida Museum of Natural History

Fossil

• † Trachemys inflata Template:Small - inflated slider turtle<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
• † Trachemys haugrudi Template:Small - Haugrud's slider turtle<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

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)