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Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae. The genus Trachemys is native to the Americas, ranging from the United States to northern Argentina.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachemys, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2442941	https://www.gbif.org/species/2442941
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	68066	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=68066

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : Trachemys

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
-	Testudinata
order	Testudines	Batsch 1788
suborder	Cryptodira	Cope 1868
-	Pantestudinoidea	Joyce et al. 2004
superfamily	Testudinoidea	Gray 1825
-	Panemydidae	Joyce et al. 2004
family	Emydidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Trachemys	Agassiz 1857

Common Name

slider

Scientific Name

Trachemys Agassiz, 1857

Name Published In

Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S. 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Trachemys	genus	subjective synonym of Chrysemys	stated with evidence	Boulenger, 1889
Trachemys	genus	belongs to Emydidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Trachemys	genus	belongs to Emydinae	stated with evidence	Seidel and Smith, 1986
Trachemys	genus	belongs to Emydidae	stated without evidence	Ernst and Barbour, 1989
Trachemys	genus	belongs to Deirochelyinae	stated without evidence	Parham et al., 2008
Trachemys	genus	belongs to Emydidae	stated with evidence	de la Fuente et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

17 (85%)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

freshwater (based on Emydidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Emydidae)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Emydidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. Agassiz. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classi cation. Part II. North American Testudinata.

Common Name(s)

Slider, Sliders, Slider Turtles

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachemys

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Trachemys adiutrix species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Trachemys antiqua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Trachemys callirostris species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Trachemys decorata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hispaniolan Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys decussata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	North Antillean Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys delicata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trachemys dorbigni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Trachemys emolli species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Nicaraguan Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys gaigeae species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Big Bend Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys grayi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Gray's Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys haugrudi ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	10.3 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Trachemys inflata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trachemys nebulosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Baja California Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys nuchocarinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trachemys ornata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ornate Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys platymarginata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trachemys scripta species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Slider	10	10.3 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Trachemys sculpta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Trachemys stejnegeri species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Central Antillean Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys taylori species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Cuatro Cienegas Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys terrapen species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Jamaican Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys venusta species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	MesoAmerican Slider			0 Ma Extant
Trachemys yaquia species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Yaqui Slider			0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Trachemys trulla Hay, 1908	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : Trachemys : *Trachemys trulla*
Redamia Gray, 1870	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : *Redamia*
Callichelys Gray, 1863	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : *Callichelys*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1857	Trachemys Agassiz p. 434
1863	Callichelys Gray p. 181
1870	Redamia Gray
1902	Trachemys Hay p. 449
1908	Trachemys jarmani Hay
1908	Trachemys trulla Hay
1986	Trachemys Seidel and Smith p. 246
1989	Trachemys Ernst and Barbour
1993	Trachemys de Broin and de la Fuente p. 10

Year	Name and Author
1996	Trachemys Frank and Ramus
2001	Trachemys Weems and George p. 572
2008	Trachemys Parham et al.
2014	Trachemys de la Fuente et al.
2014	Trachemys van Dijk et al.
2018	Trachemys Jasinski
2018	Trachemys Vlachos
2018	Trachemys de la Fuente et al.
2019	Trachemys May

References

Agassiz L. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classi cation. Part II. North American Testudinata, 1-452

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Hay O. P. (1908) The fossil turtles of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75, 1-568

Seidel M. E., Smith H. M. (1986) Chrysemys, Pseudemys, Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae): did Agassiz have it right?, Herpetologica 42 2, 242-248

Ernst C. H., Barbour R. W. (1989) Turtles of the World, Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution Press

de Broin F., de la Fuente M. (1993) Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis], Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79 3, 169-232

Frank N., Ramus E. (1996) A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, 1-377

Weems R. E., George R. A. (2001) Amphibians and nonmarine turtles from the Miocene Calvert Formation of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (USA), Journal of Paleontology 87 4, 570-588 doi:10.1666/12-071

Parham J. F., Outerbirdge M. E., et al (2008) Introduced delicacy or native species? A natural origin of Bermudian terrapins supported by fossil and genetic data, Biology Letters 2008 4, 216-219 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0599

de la Fuente M. S., Sterli J., et al (2014) Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles, Springer Earth System Sciences doi:0.1007/978-3-319-00518-8

van Dijk P. P., Iverson J. B., et al (2014) Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status, Chelonian Research Monographs 5, 329-479

Jasinski S. E. (2018) 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, PeerJ, 1-92 doi:10.7717/peerj.4338

Vlachos E. (2018) A Review of the Fossil Record of North American Turtles of the Clade Pan-Testudinoidea, Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 59 1, 3-94

de la Fuente M. S., Zacarias G. G., et al (2018) A review of the fossil record of the South American turtles of the clade Pan-Testudinoidea, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

May S. R. (2019) The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA, Palaeontologia Electronica 22.1.15, 1-129 doi:10.26879/929

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Uetz, 1995-, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S. 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Uetz, 1995- - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey (2014) The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Frank T. Burbrink, Jonathan A. Campbell, Kevin de Queiroz, et al., 2012: Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding, Seventh Ed.. Herpetological Circular, no. 39. 1-92. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed., 1993: Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. iv + 73. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2004: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, draft (2004). - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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