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Mesoamerican Slider
Trachemys venusta
The Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta) is a species of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. The species is distributed from Mexico to Colombia.
From the article Meso-American slider on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
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
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
The subspecific name, grayi, is in honor of British herpetologist John Edward Gray.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Trachemys venusta in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39783.