Chrysemys picta bellii (Gray 1831)

Chrysemys treleasei Hurter, 1911

[= Chrysemys picta bellii (Gray, 1831); fide, Bishop and Schmidt, 1931:136, Ernst, 1971:106.2]

Hurter, 1911, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 20:235, pl. 23: fig. 3; pl. 24.

Syntypes: USNM 49427 (alcoholic female, CL 132 mm), St. Clair County, Illinois, collected by Julius Hurter Sr., 3 Jul 1908; USNM 49428 (alcoholic juvenile, CL 39 mm), St. Clair County, Illinois, collected by Julius Hurter Sr., 16 Jun 1895; and USNM 49429 (alcoholic juvenile, CL 64 mm), Madison County, Illinois, collected by Julius Hurter Sr., 9 Jul 1905.

Type Locality: “On the east side of the Mississippi River, in Madison, St. Clair, and Monroe Counties, Illinois” (see “Remarks”).

Etymology: A patronym honoring Professor William Trelease, then president of the Academy of Science of St. Louis.

Remarks: Despite the stated type locality, no syntypes are known from Monroe County, Illinois.