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Jamaican Slider
Trachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre, 1789)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Trachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre, 1789)
- Name authority
- (Bonnaterre, 1789)
- Common name
- Jamaican Slider
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Emydidae
- Genus
- Trachemys
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
- orderTestudines Batsch, 1788
- suborderCryptodira
- superfamilyTestudinoidea
- familyEmydidae
- genusTrachemys
- speciesTrachemys terrapen (Bonnaterre, 1789)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Trachemys. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Cuban SliderTrachemys decussata (Gray, 1831) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-bellied SliderTrachemys dorbigni (Duméril & Bibron, 1835) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Big Bend SliderTrachemys gaigeae (Hartweg, 1939) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trachemys grayi (Bocourt, 1868) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-bellied SliderTrachemys nebulosa (Van Denburgh, 1895) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ornate SliderTrachemys ornata (Gray, 1831) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yaqui SliderTrachemys yaquia (Legler & Webb, 1970) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atrato sliderTrachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez, Valle, Ceballos & Fritz, 2017 | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trachemys scripta (Thunberg, 1792) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brazilian SliderTrachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995 | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colombian Slider [callirostris]Trachemys callirostris (Gray, 1855) | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Antillean SliderTrachemys stejnegeri Schmidt, 1928 | EmydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Pseudemys felis Barbour, 1935 Barbour, 1935 | synonym |
| Emys rugosa var. livida Gray, 1831 Gray, 1831 | synonym |
| Testudo fasciata Suckow, 1798 Suckow, 1798 | ambiguous synonym |
| Testudo palustris Gmelin, 1789 Gmelin, 1789 | synonym |
| Pseudemys terrapen terrapen Mertens, 1955 Mertens, 1955 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Trachemys&species=terrapen Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:57P8R. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.