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Maranhão slider

{{Short description|Species of turtle}}

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| name = Maranhão slider

| image = Carvalho's Slider (Trachemys adiutrix) (Courtesy of Tony Chevalier) (26946013198).jpg

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tortoise. |author2=Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. |year=1996 |errata=2016 |title=Trachemys adiutrix |volume=1996 |page=e.T40762A97298795 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T40762A10363082.en |access-date=29 July 2007}}

| genus = Trachemys

| species = adiutrix

| authority = Vanzolini, 1995

| synonyms =

  • Trachemys aduitrix Vanzolini, 1995 (ex errore)

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite journal|journal=Vertebrate Zoology |title=Checklist of Chelonians of the World |year=2007 |author=Fritz, Uwe |author-link=species:Uwe Fritz |author2=Havaš, Peter |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=201 |doi=10.3897/vz.57.e30895 |s2cid=87809001 |doi-access=free }}

| range_map = Trachemys adiutrix.png

}}

The Maranhão slider (Trachemys adiutrix), also commonly known as the Brazilian slider,{{EMBL species|genus=Trachemys|species=dorbigni}} or Carvalho's slider, is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae.

Geographic range

Trachemys adiutrix is endemic to northeastern Brazil. One of its English common names refers to the Brazilian state of Maranhão, but it also occurs in the Brazilian state of Piauí.

Etymology

The specific name, adiutrix, which is Latin feminine for "helper", comes in honor of Dr. Maria do Socorro Pinheiro, field companion of Vanzolini. Her surname, Socorro, means "help" in Portuguese.{{cite web|url=http://www.wordreference.com/pten/Socorro|title=socorro|website=WordReference.com}}

The eponym, Carvalho's slider, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.{{cite book|author=Beolens, Bo|author-link=species:Bo Beolens|author2= Watkins, Michael|author3= Grayson, Michael |year=2011|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles|location=Baltimore|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5 |page= 49}}

Taxonomy

T. adiutrix is sometimes considered a subspecies of T. dorbigni as T. dorbigni adiutrix, which may have been introduced.

References

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Further reading

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  • {{cite journal|author=Vanzolini, P.E.|author-link=Paulo Vanzolini |year=1995|title=A new species of turtle, genus Trachemys, from the state of Maranhão, Brazil (Testudines, Emydidae)|journal=Revista Brasileira de Biologia|volume=55|issue=1|pages=111–125|issn=0034-7108}}

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Category:Trachemys

Category:Endemic reptiles of Brazil

Category:Turtles of South America

Category:Turtles of Brazil

Category:Endangered biota of South America

Category:Reptiles described in 1995

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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