Trachemys

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Division: Archelosauria
Division: Pan-Testudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira
Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Familia: Emydidae
Subfamilia: Deirochelyinae
Genus: Trachemys
Species: T. adiutrix – T. callirostris – T. decorata – T. decussata – T. dorbigni – T. emolli – T. gaigeae – T. grayi – † T. haugrudi – † T. idahoensis – † T. inflata – T. medemi – T. nebulosa – T. ornata – † T. platymarginata – T. scripta – T. stejnegeri – T. taylori – T. terrapen – T. venusta – T. yaquia
T. decorata - - T. dorbigni - -

Name

Trachemys Agassiz, 1857
References

Vargas-Ramírez, M., del Valle, C. Ceballos, C.P. Fritz, U.. 2017. Trachemys medemi n. sp. from northwestern Colombia turns the biogeography of South American slider turtles upside down. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 55(4):326-339. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12179
Trachemys – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names
English: Slider Turtles
日本語: アカミミガメ属

Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae.[1] The genus Trachemys is native to the Americas, ranging from the United States to northern Argentina. Species under this genus are commonly referred to as sliders.
Two red-eared sliders basking at Captain Falcon Park in Corpus Christi, Texas (15 April 2016).
Mesoamerican slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila) in Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004).

Species and subspecies
Extant

Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995 – Maranhão slider[1]
Trachemys callirostris (Gray, 1856) – Colombian slider[1]
T. c. callirostris (Gray, 1856) – Colombian slider[1]
T. c. chichiriviche (Pritchard & Trebbau, 1984) – Venezuelan slider[1]
Trachemys decorata (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – Hispaniolan slider[1]
Trachemys decussata (Bell, 1830) – Cuban slider[1]
T. d. angusta (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – western Cuban slider[1]
T. d. decussata (Bell, 1830) – eastern Cuban slider[1]
Trachemys dorbigni (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835) – D'Orbigny's slider[1]
Trachemys emolli (Legler, 1990) – Nicaraguan slider[1]
Trachemys gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939) – Big Bend slider[1]
T. g. gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939) – Big Bend slider[1]
T. g. hartwegi (Legler, 1990) – Nazas slider[1]
Trachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez, del Valle, Ceballos & Fritz, 2017 – Atrato slider[4]
Trachemys nebulosa (Van Denburgh, 1895) – Baja California slider[1]
T. n. hiltoni (Carr, 1942) – Fuerte slider[1]
T. n. nebulosa (Van Denburgh, 1895) – Baja California slider[1]
Trachemys ornata (Gray, 1830) – ornate slider[1]
Trachemys scripta (Thunberg, 1792) – pond slider[1]
T. s. elegans (Wied, 1839) – red-eared slider[1]
T. s. scripta (Thunberg, 1792) – yellow-bellied slider[1]
T. s. troostii (Holbrook, 1836) – Cumberland slider[1]
Trachemys stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1928) – Central Antillean slider[1]
T. s. malonei (Barbour & Carr, 1938) – Inagua slider[1]
T. s. stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1928) – Puerto Rican slider[1]
T. s. vicina (Barbour & Carr, 1940) – Dominican slider[1]
Trachemys taylori (Legler, 1960) – Cuatro Ciénegas slider[1]
Trachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre, 1789) – Jamaican slider[1]
Trachemys venusta (Gray, 1856) – Meso-American slider[5][6]
T. v. cataspila (Günther, 1885) – Huasecan slider[5][6]
T. v. grayi (Bocourt, 1868) – Gray's slider or Tehuantepec slider[5][6][3]
T. v. iversoni McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Yucatan slider[5]
T. v. panamensis McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Panamanian slider[5]
T. v. uhrigi McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Uhrig's slider[5]
T. v. venusta (Gray, 1856) – Belize slider[5][6]
Trachemys yaquia (Legler & Webb, 1970) – Yaqui slider[1]

Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trachemys.
Fossil

† Trachemys inflata Weaver & Robertson, 1967 - inflated slider turtle[7]
† Trachemys haugrudi Jasinski, 2018 - Haugrud's slider turtle[8]

References

Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007-10-31). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
Harfush-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. S2CID 86009087.
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 Research 55 (4): 326-339. doi:10.1111/jzs.12179
Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.104.
Fritz & Havaš 2007, pp. 210-211.
Jasinski, Steve (May 2013). "Fossil Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae) from the Late Hemphillian of Eastern Tennessee and Its Implications for the Evolution of the Emydidae". Doctoral dissertation, East Tennessee State University. Retrieved 2019-09-22.

Jasinski, Steven E. (2018-02-13). "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. 6: e4338. doi:10.7717/peerj.4338. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5815335. PMID 29456887.