The Central Antillean slider (''Trachemys stejnegeri'') is a species of turtle in the family

Emydidae Emydidae (Latin ''emys'' (freshwater tortoise) + Ancient Greek εἶδος (''eîdos'', “appearance, resemblance”)) is a family of testudines (turtles) that includes close to 50 species in 10 genera. Members of this family are commonly calle ...

. The species is found on three islands in the West Indies:

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and th ...

, Great Inagua, and Puerto Rico.

Etymology

The

specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...

, ''stejnegeri'', is in honor of Norwegian-born American herpetologist

Leonhard Stejneger Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles ...

.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Trachemys stejnegeri'', p. 252).

Geographic range

''T. stejnegeri'' is found on the islands of Puerto Rico, Great Inagua, and

( Dominican Republic and

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

Subspecies

Three

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies. *''

Trachemys stejnegeri stejnegeri 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 The pond slider (''Trachemys scripta'') is a species of common, med ...

'' – Puerto Rican slider *''

Trachemys stejnegeri malonei The Inagua slider (''Trachemys stejnegeri malonei'') is a subspecies of the Central Antillean slider The Central Antillean slider (''Trachemys stejnegeri'') is a species of turtle in the Family (biology), family Emydidae. The species is found ...

'' – Inagua slider *''

Trachemys stejnegeri vicina The Dominican slider (''Trachemys stejnegeri vicina'') is a subspecies of turtle in the family Emydidae. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officia ...

'' – Dominican slider '' Nota bene'': A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Trachemys''.

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Subspecies

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