The Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta ) is a species of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae . The species is distributed from Mexico to Colombia .
Meso-American slider T. v. venusta in Belize Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Testudinoidea Family: Emydidae Genus: Trachemys Species: T. venusta
Binomial name Trachemys venusta Synonyms Trachemys venusta venusta Emys venusta Gray, 1856 Emys valida LeConte , 1860 Clemmys valida — Strauch , 1862 Callichelys venusta — Gray, 1863 Emys (Clemmys) salvini Günther , 1885 Pseudemys salvini — Cope , 1887 Emys valida — Malnate , 1971 Pseudemys scripta venusta — Moll & Legler , 1971 Chrysemys scripta venusta — Henderson & Hoevers , 1975 Trachemys scripta venusta — Iverson , 1985 Trachemys ornata venusta — Walls, 1996 Trachemys venusta venusta — Seidel , 2002 Trachemys venusta cataspila Emys ventricosa Gray, 1856 Pseudemys ventricosa — Gray, 1870 Emys (Clemmys) cataspila Günther, 1885 Pseudemys cataspila — Cope, 1887 Chrysemys ornata var. cataspila — Boulenger , 1889 Pseudemys scripta cataspila — Carr , 1938 Pseudemys ornata cataspila — Mertens & Wermuth , 1955 Chrysemys scripta cataspila — H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith , 1975 Trachemys scripta cataspila — Iverson, 1985 Trachemys ornata cataspila — Fritz , 1995 Trachemys venusta cataspila — Seidel, 2002 Emys grayi Bocourt , 1868 Callichelys grayii — Gray, 1870 (ex errore ) Emys umbra Bocourt, 1876 Pseudemys umbra — Cope, 1887 Callichelys grayi — Boulenger, 1889 Chrysemys grayi — Boulenger, 1889 Clemmys umbra — Strauch, 1890 Chrysemys umbra — Lindholm , 1929 Pseudemys grayi — Carr, 1938 Pseudemys ornata grayi — Stuart, 1963 Pseudemys scripta grayi — Legler & Webb , 1970 Chrysemys scripta grayi — H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1975 Pseudemys scripta umbra — Pritchard , 1979 Trachemys scripta grayi — Iverson, 1985 Trachemys grayi — King & Burke , 1989 Trachemys ornata grayi — Walls, 1996 Trachemys venusta grayi — Seidel, 2002
Mesoamerican Slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila), Municipality of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004). 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 .
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