Cuatro Ciénegas slider

The Cuatro Ciénegas slider (Trachemys taylori)[2][3] is a species of turtle belonging to the genus Trachemys of the family Emydidae.

Cuatro Ciénegas slider
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Emydidae
Genus:	Trachemys
Species:	T. taylori
Binomial name
Trachemys taylori (Legler, 1960)[2][3]
Synonyms[3]
Pseudemys scripta taylori Legler, 1960 Chrysemys scripta taylori — H.M. Smith & Taylor, 1966 Chrysemys gaigeae taylori — Weaver & Rose, 1967 Chrysemys taylori — Weaver & Rose, 1967 Trachemys scripta taylori — Iverson, 1985 Trachemys nebulosa taylori — Fritz, 1995 Trachemys ornata taylori — Walls, 1996 Trachemys taylori — Seidel, 2002

Etymology

The specific name, taylori, is in honor of American herpetologist Edward Harrison Taylor.[4]

Geographic range

T. taylori is endemic to the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in the Coahuila state in northeastern Mexico.[3][2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of T. taylori is freshwater wetlands.[1]

Conservation status

T. taylori is an endangered species.

References

1. van Dijk PP, Flores-Villela O (2007). "Trachemys taylori (errata version published in 2016)". The [[IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63662A97431374. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63662A12693739.en. Downloaded on 09 August 2020.
2. Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.104 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRhodin_et_al.2010 (help)
3. Fritz & Havaš 2007, p. 209 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFFritz_&_Havaš2007 (help).
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trachemys taylori, p. 261).

Bibliography

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
• Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007-10-31). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2010-12-29.

Further reading

Legler JM (1960). "A New Subspecies of Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, México". Univ. Kansas Pub. Mus. Nat. Hist. 13 (3): 73–84. (Pseudemys scripta taylori, new subspecies).