Trachemys terrapen

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Testudinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Familia: Emydidae
Subfamilia: Deirochelyinae
Genus: Trachemys
Species: Trachemys terrapen

Name

• Trachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre 1789)
  • Type locality: "On la trouve aux Antilles & particulierement a la Jamaique. . .tres commune dans les lacs," (= the lakes of Jamaica).
  • Holotype: Unlocated. Holotype: MCZ 38385. Paratypes: MCZ, USNM Pseudemys felis

Synonymy

• (Testudo) terrapen Lacépède 1788
  • Testudo terrapen Bonnaterre 1789:30
  • Testudo fasciata Suckow 1798
  • Emys rugosa var. livida Gray 1831
  • Chrysemys scripta var. rugosa Boulenger 1889
  • Pseudemys terrapen Barbour & Carr 1940
  • Testudo palustris Gmelin 1789
  • Emys palustris Leidy 1887: 394
  • Pseudemys palustris Barbour 1910:301
  • Pseudemys felis Barbour 1935
  • Pseudemys terrapen terrapen Mertens 1955
  • Chrysemys terrapen Fritz & Bienhaert 1981
  • Trachemys terrapen Schwartz & Henderson 1991:179
  • Chrysemys terrapen Geißler 2005
  • Trachemys terrapin [sic] Reynolds et al. 2007
  • Trachemys terrapen TTWG 2014:365

References

• Bonnaterre, P.J. 1789. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Erpétologie. Panckoucke, Paris, xxviii+71 pp. (+ plates + index).
• Schwartz,A. & Henderson,R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. .
• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Vernacular names

čeština: Želva jamajská
English: Jamaican slider, Cat Island slider