Distribution
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Continent: Caribbean
Distribution: Hispaniola, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Great Inagua, Bahamas, Marie-Galante (introduced), Guadeloupe.
malonei: Bahamas Islands, Great Inagua
vicina: Hispaniola, north of Plaine de Cul de Sac - Valle de Neiba.
Type locality: "San Juan, Porto Rico" (=San Juan, Puerto Rico).
Comprehensive Description
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Pseudemys stejnegeri Schmidt, 1928
[= Trachemys stejnegeri (Schmidt, 1928); fide, Seidel, 1988a:30, Seidel, 1988c:441.1]
Schmidt, 1928, New York Acad. Sci. 10(1):147, figs. 51–52.
Holotype: USNM 25642 (adult female, dry shell and skull, and alcoholic limbs, skin, and viscera, CL “232 mm”), collector unknown, collected during U.S. Fish Commission Scientific Survey by the steamer Fish Hawk, 14 Jan 1899.
Type Locality: “San Juan, Porto Rico” [Puerto Rico].
Paratypes: USNM 25643 (alcoholic adult male, CL 141 mm) and USNM 25644 (alcoholic adult male, CL 144 mm), both from the type locality, collection data as for holotype; and USNM 25653 (dry stuffed subadult male with skull, CL 120 mm), Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, collection data as for holotype, collected on 9 Jan 1899.
Other Type Material: Paratypes: AMNH 15186; FMNH 12476–78, 12480–89; UIMNH 39950.
Etymology: The name stejnegeri is a patronym honoring Smithsonian Institution herpetologist Dr. Leonhard Stejneger.
- citation bibliographique
- Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626
Puerto Rican slider: Brief Summary
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The Puerto Rican slider (Trachemys stejnegeri stejnegeri) is a subspecies of turtle found mainly in Puerto Rico and surrounding areas. It is a relative of the pond slider.
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