EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Trachemys decorata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Trachemys (Slider Turtles)
species..............Trachemys decorata (Hispaniolan Slider)
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- Original Description
- Barbour and Carr 1940 : 409
- Holotype
- MCZ 36862
- Type Locality
- "Fond Parisien, [Dépt. de l'Ouest] Haiti"
- Original name
- Pseudemys decorata
- Common Name
- Hispaniolan Slider
- Distribution
- Southern Haiti and the southern Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola
- Comments
- Reviewed by Bickham (1980; as Pseudemys decorata), Seidel (1988), and Schwartz and Henderson (1991). Although Seidel and Inchaustegui Miranda (1984) considered this taxon to be a subspecies of Trachemys stejnegeri, they now believe it deserves species status (see Seidel and Adkins, 1987; Seidel, 1988).
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