Maranhão slider

The Maranhão slider (Trachemys adiutrix), also commonly known as the Brazilian slider[3][4] or Carvalho's slider, is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae.

Maranhão slider
Scientific classification
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[2]
  • Trachemys adiutrix
    Vanzolini, 1995
  • Trachemys aduitrix [sic]
    Baillie & Groombridge, 1996
    (ex errore)

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.[4] Her surname, Socorro, means "help" in Portuguese.[5]

The eponym, Carvalho's slider, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.[3]

References
  1. Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (1996). Trachemys adiutrix. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 201. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. 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 adiutrix, p. 49).
  4. "Trachemys adiutrix ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  5. http://www.wordreference.com/pten/Socorro.

Further reading

Data related to Trachemys adiutrix at Wikispecies

  • Baillie, Jonathan E. M.; Groombridge, Brian (1996). "Trachemys adiutrix ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996. IUCN Conservation Library Series. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature. 448 pp. ISBN 978-2831703350.
  • 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. (Trachemys adiutrix, new species).


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