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Meso-American slider

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Mesoamerican Slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila), Municipality of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004).

The Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta)^[1]^[2] is a species of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. The species is distributed from Mexico to Colombia.^[2]

The species Trachemys venusta is found from southeastern Mexico to northwestern Colombia.^[1]

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

Trachemys venusta venusta (Gray, 1856) – Belize slider ^[1]^[2]
Trachemys venusta cataspila (Günther, 1885) – Huastecan slider^[1]^[2]
Trachemys venusta grayi (Bocourt, 1868) – Gray's slider^[1]^[2]
Trachemys venusta iversoni McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Yucatán slider^[1]
Trachemys venusta panamensis McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Panamanian slider^[1]
Trachemys venusta uhrigi McCord, Joseph-Ouni, Hagen & Blanck, 2010 – Uhrig's slider^[1]

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trachemys.

The subspecific name, grayi, is in honor of British herpetologist John Edward Gray.^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Rhodin 2010, p. 000.104
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Fritz 2007, pp. 210–211
^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 210–211. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. S2CID 87809001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trachemys venusta grayi, p. 107).