EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Trachemys stejnegeri
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Trachemys (Slider Turtles)
species..............Trachemys stejnegeri (Central Antillean Slider)
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- Original Description
- Schmidt 1928 : 147
- Holotype
- USNM 25642
- Type Locality
- "San Juan, Porto Rico [= Puerto Rico]"
- Original name
- Pseudemys stejnegeri
- Common Name
- Central Antillean Slider
- Distribution
- Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the Bahamas (Great Inagua Island); introduced on Paradise Island off New Providence in the Bahamas. Marķe Galante Island, (25 km SE Guadelupe in the Lesser Antilles), and Culebra and Vieques Islands off of Puerto Rico (Seidel, 1988).
- Comments
- Reviewed by Seidel (1988). Includes Pseudemys malonei Barbour and Carr (1938:76) according to Seidel (1984 and 1988) and Seidel and Adkins (1987).
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