how many slider species are there? i only know of red eared slider, yellow belly slider, central american slider.
slider species?
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coura;4284482; said:Actually that list is greatly outdated, most of thouse subspecies have now been given full species status. There are currently 9 species of Trachemys, the sliders. As for how many subspecies....Im too lazy to couth them now
Figures, the link was only the result 30 second search on google.
Check your local library for one of the more recent turtles of the world books. There's a newish edition of Ernst, Lovich, and Barbour, as well as a more conservation-focused turtles of the world book by some French authors whose names I can't recall. Either will reflect recent taxonomy, though they aren't perfectly up-to-date. There's still a lot of debate over species status of various tropical populations. The whole group ranges from the US to Argentina. Most of the diversity is in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica.
There are three species, one with three subspecies, native to the US:
Puerto Rican Slider, Trachemys stejnegeri stejnegeri: Puerto Rico
Big Bend Slider, T. gaigeae: South Texas
Yellow-bellied Slider, T. scripta scripta: southern Atlantic slope, FL to VA
Cumberland Slider, T. scripta troosti: upper Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, TN and KY
Red-eared Slider, T. scripta elegans: south central US, mainly in Gulf of Mexico drainages (widely introduced elsewhere)
There are three species, one with three subspecies, native to the US:
Puerto Rican Slider, Trachemys stejnegeri stejnegeri: Puerto Rico
Big Bend Slider, T. gaigeae: South Texas
Yellow-bellied Slider, T. scripta scripta: southern Atlantic slope, FL to VA
Cumberland Slider, T. scripta troosti: upper Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, TN and KY
Red-eared Slider, T. scripta elegans: south central US, mainly in Gulf of Mexico drainages (widely introduced elsewhere)