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Trachemys terrapen (Jamaican slider)
Taxonomy
Testudo terrapen was named by Lacépède (1788) [also attributed to Bonnaterre 1789]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Trachemys terrapen by Seidel and Smith (1986), van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was recombined as Trachemys terrapen by Seidel and Smith (1986), van Dijk et al. (2014).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1788 | Testudo terrapen Lacépède |
| 1986 | Trachemys terrapen Seidel and Smith p. 246 |
| 2014 | Trachemys terrapen van Dijk et al. |
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Trachemys terrapen Lacépède 1788 [Jamaican slider]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available