Trachemys yaquia (LEGLER & WEBB, 1970)

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Higher Taxa	Emydidae, Deirochelyinae, Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Yaqui Slider S: Jicotea del Yaqui
Synonym	Pseudemys scripta yaquia LEGLER & WEBB 1970 Trachemys scripta yaquia — ERNST & BARBOUR 1989: 205 Pseudemys scripta yaquia — LEGLER 1990 Trachemys yaquia — SEIDEL 2002 Trachemys yaquia — HENNIG 2002 Trachemys dorbigni yaquia — OBST 2003: 16 Trachemys yaquia — MCCORD & JOSEPH-OUNI 2005 Trachemys yaquia — TTWG 2014: 366 Trachemys yaquia — VARGAS-RAMÍREZ et al. 2017 Trachemys yaquia — TTWG 2021
Distribution	Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua) Type locality: Río Mayo, Conicarit, Sonora, Mexico, 27° 14’ N, 109° 06’ W.
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: UU 6030 (University of Utah Museum of Zoology), mature female. Paratypes: total of 11 adult or subadult specimens from the type locality; UU 6028-29, ASU 6776, females; UU 6031, 6032, 6033, ASU 6749-52, 6775, males. Numbers marked with an asterisk indicate specimens prepared in same manner as holotype. Paratypies from Arizona State University were collected on 31 August 1966.
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (435 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Habitat: freshwater (lakes, ponds, rivers)
Etymology	Named after the Yaqui drainage of Sonora, the land of the Yaqui Indians.
References	Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here Enderson, Erik F.; Thomas R. Van Devender, Robert L. Bezy 2014. Amphibians and reptiles of Yécora, Sonora and the Madrean Tropical Zone of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Check List 10 (4): 913-926 - 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 Legler, J.M. & Webb,R.G. 1970. A New Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Sonora, Mexico. Herpetologica 26: 157-168 - get paper here Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Rorabaugh JC 2019. A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sonora, Mexico, with updated species lists. ZooKeys 829: 131-160 - 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 Obst, F.J. 2003. Sumpfschildkröten. Draco 4 (13): 4-18 - 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 Seidel, Michael E. & Carl H. Ernst 2017. A Systematic Review of the Turtle Family Emydidae. Vertebrate Zoology 67 (1): 1–122 - 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 Turner, D. S., Van Devender, T. R., Hale, S. F., Zach, R., Martínez, R., Van Devender, R. W., ... & Paholski, C. 2022. Amphibians and reptiles of Rancho Las Playitas area, Sonora, Mexico. Sonoran Herpetologist, 35, 50-59 - 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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