Trachemys is a
genus of
turtles belonging to the family
Emydidae.[1] 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.
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abHarfush-Meléndez, Martha; Buskirk, James R. (2008-07-29). "New Distributional Data on the Tehuantepec Slider, Trachemys grayi, in Oaxaca, Mexico". Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 7 (2): 274–276.
doi:
10.2744/CCB-0710.1.
S2CID86009087.
^Vargas-Ramírez, Mario; del Valle, Carlos; Ceballos, Claudia P.; Fritz, Uwe (2017). "Trachemys medemi n. sp. from northwestern Colombia turns the biogeography of South American slider turtles". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research55 (4): 326-339.
doi:
10.1111/jzs.12179
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).
Trachemys is a
genus of
turtles belonging to the family
Emydidae.[1] 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.
^
abHarfush-Meléndez, Martha; Buskirk, James R. (2008-07-29). "New Distributional Data on the Tehuantepec Slider, Trachemys grayi, in Oaxaca, Mexico". Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 7 (2): 274–276.
doi:
10.2744/CCB-0710.1.
S2CID86009087.
^Vargas-Ramírez, Mario; del Valle, Carlos; Ceballos, Claudia P.; Fritz, Uwe (2017). "Trachemys medemi n. sp. from northwestern Colombia turns the biogeography of South American slider turtles". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research55 (4): 326-339.
doi:
10.1111/jzs.12179
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).