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Trachemys

{{Short description|Genus of turtles}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Miocene|present}}

| image = Tortoise1 cepolina.jpg

| image_caption = Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

| taxon = Trachemys

| authority = Agassiz, 1857{{cite web |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v3_2010.pdf |title=Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status |date=2010-12-14 |access-date=2010-12-15 |last1=Rhodin |first1=Anders G.J. |last2=van Dijk |first2=Peter Paul |last3=Iverson |first3=John B. |last4=Shaffer |first4=H. Bradley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125632/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v3_2010.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-17 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf |title=Checklist of Chelonians of the World |date=2007-10-31 |access-date=2010-12-29 |last1=Fritz |first1=Uwe |last2=Havaš |first2=Peter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501060224/http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf |archive-date=2011-05-01 |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |title=New Distributional Data on the Tehuantepec Slider, Trachemys grayi, in Oaxaca, Mexico |date=2008-07-29 |last1=Harfush-Meléndez |first1=Martha |last2=Buskirk |first2=James R.|journal=Chelonian Conservation and Biology |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=274–276 |doi=10.2744/CCB-0710.1 |s2cid=86009087 }}

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| synonyms = Calliclemys
Redemys

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Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae. 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.

File:Red-Eared Slider - Turtle.JPG (15 April 2016).]]

File:Trachemys venusta cataspila, Mesoamerican Slider, Tamaulipas.jpg

Species and subspecies

=Extant=

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.

File:Trachemys inflata FLMNH.jpg, Florida Museum of Natural History]]

=Fossil=

  • † Trachemys inflata {{small|Weaver & Robertson, 1967}} - inflated slider turtle{{Cite news|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/413e4497f3a2abe0f5966268ece46bf3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y|title=Fossil Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae) from the Late Hemphillian of Eastern Tennessee and Its Implications for the Evolution of the Emydidae|last=Jasinski|first=Steve|date=May 2013|work=Doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University|access-date=2019-09-22|language=en-US}}
  • † Trachemys haugrudi {{small|Jasinski, 2018}} - Haugrud's slider turtle{{Cite journal|last=Jasinski|first=Steven E.|date=2018-02-13|title=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 |journal=PeerJ|language=en|volume=6|pages=e4338|doi=10.7717/peerj.4338|pmid=29456887|pmc=5815335|issn=2167-8359 |doi-access=free }}

References

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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

  • [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Trachemys.html#Trachemys University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web | Genus Trachemys (sliders)]

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Category:Turtle genera

Category:Turtles of North America

Category:Turtles of South America

Category:Taxa named by Louis Agassiz