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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Cat Island Freshwater Turtle, Cat Island Turtle, Jamaica Slider, Jamaican Slider
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater [1].
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Chelonia
()
- Subclass:
Anapsida
()
- Order:
Casichelydia
()
- Suborder:
Cryptodira
()
- Superfamily:
Testudinoidea
()
- Family:
Emydidae
()
- Subfamily:
Deirochelyinae
()
- Genus:
Trachemys
()
- Agassiz, 1857
- Specific name:
terrapen
- (Lac?p?de, 1788)
- Scientific name: - Trachemys terrapen (Lac?p?de, 1788)
- Specific name:
terrapen
- (Lac?p?de, 1788)
- Genus:
Trachemys
(
- Subfamily:
Deirochelyinae
(
- Family:
Emydidae
(
- Superfamily:
Testudinoidea
(
- Suborder:
Cryptodira
(
- Order:
Casichelydia
(
- Subclass:
Anapsida
(
- Class:
Chelonia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Chrysemys scripta var. rugosa Boulenger 1889 • Chrysemys terrapen Fritz & Bienert 1981 • Chrysemys terrapen — Geißler 2005 • Emys palustris Leidy 1887: 394 • Emys rugosa var. livida Gray 1831 • Pseudemys felis • Pseudemys felis Barbour 1935 • Pseudemys terrapen Barbour & Carr 1940 • Pseudemys terrapen terrapen Mertens 1955 • Testudo fasciata Suckow 1798 • Testudo palustris Gmelin 1789 • Testudo terrapen • Testudo terrapen LacÉpÈde 1788 • Testudo terrapen — Bonnaterre 1789: 30 • Trachemys terrapen • Trachemys terrapen — Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 179 • Trachemys terrapen — Seidel 2002
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Holotype: Unlocated. Seidel 1988 considered T. felis to
represent introduced
populations of T. terrapen in the Bahamas. SCHWARTZ
& HENDERSON 1991 state that there might be interbreeding
between
T. terrapen and T. stejnegeri malonei on New Providence Island. Please
note
that SAVAGE (2003) suggested to reject
Lacepède’s (1788) Histoire
Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares as a non-binominal work (Case
3226; Bull
. Zool. Nom. 60 (2)). This application
has been successful.
The ICZN
(2005) has ruled that Lacepède’s (1788) work (and all subsequent
editions
of this work) are rejected as an unavailable
, non-binominal
work.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Trachemys
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species and subspecies in this genus:
T. adiutrix (Carvalho's Slider) · T. decorata (Haitian Slider) · T. decussata (North Antillean Slider) · T. dorbigni (Columbian Slider) · T. gaigeae (Big Bend Slider) · T. ornata (Ornate Slider) · T. scripta (Yellow-Bellied Slider Turtle) · T. scripta elegans (Common Slider) · T. scripta scripta (Yellow-Bellied Slider) · T. scripta troostii (Cumberland Slider) · T. scritpa elegans (Red-Eared Slider) · T. stejnegeri (Hispaniolan Slider Turtle) · T. stejnegeri malonei (Central Antillean Slider) · T. stejnegeri stejnegeri (Puerto Rican Slider) · T. taylori (Cuatro Cienegas Slider) · T. terrapen (Cat Island Freshwater Turtle) · T. yaquia (Yaqui Slider)
More Info
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Further Reading
- World Checklist of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 16, p. 92.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
- Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Trachemys terrapen. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
- Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Trachemys terrapen. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2545752
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-7205
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 202095
- IUCN ID: 246762
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: C04G
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12258
Footnotes
- Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Trachemys terrapen. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
