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Maranhão slider
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Trachemys
Species: T. adiutrix
Binomial name
Trachemys adiutrix
Vanzolini, 1995
Synonyms
  • Trachemys aduitrix Vanzolini, 1995 (ex errore)

The Maranhão slider (Trachemys adiutrix), also commonly known as the Brazilian slider, 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", comes in honor of Dr. Maria do Socorro Pinheiro, field companion of Vanzolini. Her surname, Socorro, means "help" in Portuguese.

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

Taxonomy

T. adiutrix is sometimes considered a subspecies of T. dorbigni as T. dorbigni adiutrix, which may have been introduced.

References

  1. Tortoise.; Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. (2016) . "Trachemys adiutrix". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T40762A97298795. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T40762A10363082.en. Retrieved 29 July 2007.
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 201. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. S2CID 87809001.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
  4. ^ Species Trachemys dorbigni at The Reptile Database
  5. "socorro". WordReference.com.

Further reading

Data related to Trachemys adiutrix at Wikispecies

  • 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. ISSN 0034-7108.
Emydidae family
Genera
Species of the Emydidae family
Northern red-bellied cooter(Pseudemys rubriventris)
Chrysemys
Clemmys
Deirochelys
Actinemys
Emys
Emydoidea
Glyptemys
Graptemys
Malaclemys
Pseudemys
Terrapene
Trachemys
Wilburemys
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. Key: †=extinct.
Testudines
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
Taxon identifiers
Trachemys adiutrix


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