EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Trachemys terrapen
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Trachemys (Slider Turtles)
species..............Trachemys terrapen (Jamaican Slider)
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- Original Description
- Bonnaterre 1789 : 30
- Holotype
- Not located
- Type Locality
- "aux Antilles & particulierement a la Jamaïque [= Jamaica] . . . tres commune dans les lacs"
- Original name
- Testudo terrapen
- Common Name
- Jamaican Slider
- Distribution
- Jamaica; introduced on Cat Island, Eleuthra, Andros and Paradise Island, Bahamas
- Comments
- Originally described by Lacepède (1788
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