Ornate slider
Ornate slider |
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Juvenile ornate slider illustrated by James de Carle Sowerby |
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Scientific classification |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Chordata |
Class: |
Reptilia |
Subclass: |
Anapsida |
Order: |
Testudines |
Family: |
Emydidae |
Genus: |
Trachemys |
Species: |
T. ornata |
Binomial name |
Trachemys ornata (Gray, 1830)[2] |
Synonyms[3] |
- Emys ornata Gray, 1831
- Clemmys (Clemmys) ornata Fitzinger, 1835
- Callichelys ornata Gray, 1863
- Pseudemys ornata Cope, 1876
- Chrysemys ornata Boulenger, 1889
- Chrysemys [ornata] ornata Siebenrock, 1909
- Pseudemys ornata ornata Mertens, Müller & Rust, 1934
- Pseudemys scripta ornata Carr, 1938
- Pseudomys scripta ornata Malkin, 1956
- Chrysemys scripta ornata Smith & Taylor, 1966
- Trachemys scripta ornata Iverson, 1985
- Trachemys ornata King & Burke, 1989
- Trachemys ornata ornata Walls, 1996
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The ornate slider[4] (Trachemys ornata)[2] is turtle belonging to the Trachemys genus of the family Emydidae. It is found in Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa in western Mexico.[2]
Subspecies
References
- Bibliography