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Trachemys terrapen (Jamaican slider)

Osteichthyes - Testudines - Emydidae

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).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1788Testudo terrapen Lacépède
1986Trachemys terrapen Seidel and Smith p. 246
2014Trachemys terrapen van Dijk et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
Pantestudinoidea
superfamilyTestudinoidea
familyEmydidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyDeirochelyinaeAgassiz 1857
genusTrachemys
speciesterrapen(Lacépède 1788)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Trachemys terrapen Lacépède 1788 [Jamaican slider]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available