Animalia > Chordata > Testudines > Emydidae > Trachemys > Trachemys venusta

Trachemys venusta

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Meso-American slider (Trachemys venusta) is a species of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae with a distribution from Mexico to Colombia.
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Infraspecies

Trachemys venusta callirostris
Trachemys venusta cataspila (Huastecan slider)
Trachemys venusta chichiriviche
Trachemys venusta iversoni (Yucatan Slider)
Trachemys venusta uhrigi (Uhrigs Slider)
Trachemys venusta venusta (Meso-American Slider)

Attributes

Gestation [2]  65 days
Litter Size [2]  9
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  75 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  2.989 lbs (1.356 kg)
Female Weight [2]  3.997 lbs (1.813 kg)
Male Weight [2]  1.984 lbs (900 g)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  101.4 %
Female Maturity [2]  8 years
Male Maturity [2]  4 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Japan Japan No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0