The Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta) is a species of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. The species is distributed from Mexico to Colombia.
Geographic range Trachemys venusta is found from southeastern Mexico to northwestern Colombia.
Trachemys venusta venusta – Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Yucatán Trachemys venusta cataspila – Mexico in the states of San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz Trachemys venusta grayi – El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca
The following three new subspecies were described in 2010.
Trachemys venusta iversoni – Mexico in the state of Yucatán Trachemys venusta panamensis – Panama Trachemys venusta uhrigi – Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia in the departments of Antioquia and Chocó
Subspecies Trachemys venusta venusta – Belize slider Trachemys venusta cataspila – Huastecan slider Trachemys venusta grayi – Gray's slider Trachemys venusta iversoni – Yucatán slider Trachemys venusta panamensis – Panamanian slider Trachemys venusta uhrigi – Uhrig's slider
Etymology The subspecific name, grayi, is in honor of British herpetologist John Edward Gray.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Trachemys venusta grayi, p. 107).
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Further reading Campbell, Jonathan A. (1998). Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. 400 pp. . pp. 114–115 ().
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