Maranhão slider

Maranhão slider
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Emydidae
Genus:	Trachemys
Species:	T. adiutrix
Binomial name
Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995
Synonyms[2]
Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995 Trachemys aduitrix [sic] Baillie & Groombridge, 1996 (ex errore)

The Maranhão slider (Trachemys adiutrix), also commonly known as the Brazilian slider^[3][4] or Carvalho's slider, is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae.

Geographic range

Trachemys adiutrix is endemic to northeastern Brazil. One of its English common names refers to the Brazilian state of Maranhão, but it also occurs in the Brazilian state of Piauí.

Etymology

The specific name, adiutrix, which is Latin feminine for "helper", is in honor of Dr. Maria do Socorro Pinheiro, field companion of Vanzolini.^[4] Her surname, Socorro, means "help" in Portuguese.^[5]

The eponym, Carvalho's slider, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.^[3]

References

Further reading

• Baillie, Jonathan E. M.; Groombridge, Brian. (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996. IUCN Conservation Library Series. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature. 448 pp. ISBN 978-2831703350.

• Vanzolini, P.E. (1995). A new species of turtle, genus Trachemys, from the state of Maranhão, Brazil (Testudines, Emydidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 55 (1): 111-125. (Trachemys adiutrix, new species).

Family Emydidae (pond turtles) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Testudinoidea Family: Emydidae Genus Species of the subfamily Deirochelyinae Chrysemys Painted turtle Deirochelys Chicken turtle Graptemys Alabama map turtle Barbour's map turtle Black-knobbed map turtle Cagle's map turtle Escambia map turtle False map turtle Northern map turtle Ouachita map turtle Pascagoula map turtle Pearl River map turtle Ringed map turtle Texas map turtle Yellow-blotched map turtle Malaclemys Diamondback terrapin Pseudemys Alabama red-bellied cooter Northern red-bellied cooter Florida red-bellied cooter Peninsula cooter Rio Grande cooter River cooter Texas river cooter Trachemys Big bend slider Baja California slider Central Antillean slider Colombian slider Cuatro Cienegas slider Cuban slider D'Orbigny's slider Hispaniolan slider Jamaican slider Maranhão slider Meso-American slider Nicaraguan slider Ornate slider Pond slider Yaqui slider   Species of the subfamily Emydinae Clemmys Spotted turtle Emys Blanding's turtle European pond turtle Sicilian pond turtle Western pond turtle Glyptemys Bog turtle Wood turtle Terrapene Coahuilan box turtle Common box turtle Ornate box turtle Spotted box turtle Phylogenetic arrangement based on turtles of the world 2011 update: annotated checklist. Subspecies and the extinct (Gyremys sectabilis) are not included.