EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Trachemys dorbigni
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Trachemys (Slider Turtles)
species..............Trachemys dorbigni (Orbigny's Slider)
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- Original Description
- Duméril and Bibron 1835 : 272
- Holotype
- MNHN 9221
- Type Locality
- "Buenos-Ayres"
- Original name
- Emys dorbigni
- Common Name
- Orbigny's Slider
- Distribution
- Extreme southern Brazil through Uruguay and into northeastern Argentina
- Comments
- Reviewed by Seidel (1989). Considered a subspecies of T. scripta by some authors (e.g., Legler, 1990).
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