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




Geographic range


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

Trachemys venusta venusta – Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Yucatán
Trachemys venusta cataspila – Mexico in the states of San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz
Trachemys venusta grayi – El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca
The following three new subspecies were described in 2010.

Trachemys venusta iversoni – Mexico in the state of Yucatán
Trachemys venusta panamensis – Panama
Trachemys venusta uhrigi – Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia in the departments of Antioquia and Chocó




Subspecies


Trachemys venusta venusta (Gray, 1856) – Belize slider
Trachemys venusta cataspila (Günther, 1885) – Huastecan slider
Trachemys venusta grayi (Bocourt, 1868) – Gray's slider
Trachemys venusta iversoni McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Yucatán slider
Trachemys venusta panamensis McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Panamanian slider
Trachemys venusta uhrigi McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Uhrig's slider
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.




References






Bibliography


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.
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.




Further reading


Campbell, Jonathan A. (1998). Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 400 pp. ISBN 0-8061-3064-4. pp. 114–115 (online copy, p. 114, at Google Books).




External links


Data related to Trachemys venusta at Wikispecies

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