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Higher TaxaEmydidae, Deirochelyinae, Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Nazas Slider [hartwegi]
S: Jicotea de La Meseta Mexican 
SynonymPseudemys scripta hartwegi LEGLER 1990: 89
Pseudemys scripta hartwegi — SMITH & SMITH 1980 (nomen nudum)
Trachemys scripta hartwegi — IVERSON 1985 (nomen nudum)
Trachemys gaigeae hartwegi — SEIDEL 2002
Trachemys gaigeae hartwegi — MCCORD & JOSEPH-OUNI 2005
Trachemys nebulosa hartwegi — BRINGSØE in FRITZ 2001
Trachemys gaigeae hartwegi — STUART & WARD 2009
Trachemys gaigeae hartwegi — TTWG 2014: 362
Trachemys gaigeae hartwegi — VARGAS-RAMÍREZ et al. 2017
Trachemys ornata hartwegi — WALLS 1996
Trachemys hartwegi — TTWG 2021 
DistributionMexico (NE Durango, SW Coahuila)

Type locality: Río Nazas, 1.2 km east of Presa Lázaro Cardenas, Durango, Mexico.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: UU 3802, immature; paratypes: MCZ, USNM, KU, UU, MSU 
Diagnosis 
CommentHabitat: freshwater (lakes, ponds, rivers) 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Norman Edouard "Kibe" Hartweg (1904-1964), American herpetologist graduated from the University of Michigan (1934) and later became a Curator there (1947). 
References
  • Fritz, U. 2001. Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas, Band 3/IIIA Schildkröten I. Aula-Verlag, Wiebelsheim. - get paper here
  • Legler, J.M. 1990. The genus Pseudemys in Mesoamerica: Taxonomy, distribution, and origins. in J.W. Gibbons (ed.): Life history and Ecology of the Slider Turtle. Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 82-105 - get paper here
  • McCord, W.P. & Joseph-Ouni, M. 2005. Chelonian Illustrations #20: Sliders of the United States and Northern Mexico. Reptilia (GB) (40): 80-83 - get paper here
  • Seidel, Michael E. 2002. Taxonomic observations on extant species and subspecies of slider turtles, genus Trachemys. Journal of Herpetology 36 (2): 285-292 - get paper here
  • Stuart, James N. & Joseph p. Ward 2009. Trachemys gaigeae (Hartweg 1939) – Big Bend Slider, Mexican Plateau Slider, Jicotea de la Meseta Mexicana. Chelonian Research Monographs (5): 032.1-12 - get paper here
  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
  • Vargas-Ramírez M, del Valle C, Ceballos CP, Fritz U. 2017. Trachemys medemi n. sp. from northwestern Colombia turns the biogeography of South American slider turtles upside down. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 2017;55:326–339 - get paper here
 
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