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Higher TaxaEmydidae, Deirochelyinae, Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
SubspeciesTrachemys callirostris callirostris (GRAY 1855)
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche PRITCHARD & TREBBAU 1984 
Common NamesG: Kinnfleck-Schmuckschildkröte [callirostris]
E: Colombian Slider [callirostris]
E: Venezuelan Slider [chichiriviche] 
SynonymEmys callirostris GRAY 1855
Emys callorostris GRAY 1855 (error typographicus)
Emys callirostris — GÜNTHER 1885: 5
Pseudemys callirostris — COPE 1887
Chrysemys ornata var. callirostris — BOULENGER 1889
Pseudemys ornata callirostris — WERMUTH & MERTENS 1977: 56
Chrysemys ornata callirostris — FRITZ & BIENERT 1981
Pseudemys scripta callirostris — LEGLER 1990: 89
Trachemys dorbigni callirostris — IVERSON 1992
Trachemys callirostris — SEIDEL 2002
Trachemys scripta callirostris — MARTINEZ SILVESTRE & ARIAS BERNAL 2004
Trachemys callirostris callirostris — MARTINEZ SILVESTRE & ARIAS BERNAL 2005
Trachemys callirostris callirostris — DAZA & PÁEZ 2007
Trachemys callirostris callirostris — FRITZ & HAVAS 2007
Trachemys callirostris callirostris — TTWG 2014: 361
Trachemys callirostris — RESTREPO et al. 2014
Trachemys callirostris callirostris — TTWG 2017
Trachemys callirostris callirostris — SEIDEL & ERNST 2017
Trachemys venusta callirostris — VARGAS-RAMÍREZ et al. 2017
Trachemys callirostris callirostris — TTWG 2021
Trachemys venusta callirostris — FRITZ et al. 2024
Trachemys callirostris — TTWG 2025

Trachemys venusta chichiriviche PRITCHARD & TREBBAU 1984
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche PRITCHARD & TREBBAU 1984
Pseudemys scripta chichiriviche PRITCHARD & TREBBAU 1984
Trachemys scripta chichiriviche PRITCHARD & TREBBAU 1984
Pseudemys scripta chichiriviche — LEGLER 1990: 89
Chrysemys scripta (ornata) chichiriviche — KAMPRATH 1990
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche — SEIDEL 2002
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche — FRITZ & HAVAS 2007
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche — TTWG 2014: 361
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche — TTWG 2017
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche — SEIDEL & ERNST 2017
Trachemys venusta chichiriviche — VARGAS-RAMÍREZ et al. 2017
Trachemys callirostris chichiriviche — TTWG 2021
Trachemys venusta chichiriviche — FRITZ et al. 2024 
Distributioncallirostris: Colombia (Antioquia, Atlántico, Bolívar, Cesar, Córdoba, La Guajira, Magdalena, Santander, Sucre),Venezuela (Carabobo, Falcón, Yaracuy, Zulia).

Type locality: Restricted to Rio Magdalena, Colombia, by Müller 1040.

chichiriviche: Venezuela (Carabobo, Falcón, Yaracuy)

Type locality: Lago de Tacarigua,*Edo. Falcón, Venezuela (68° 15' W, 11° 4' N)  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesType: BMNH 1947.3.4.87 (and possibly additional specimens)
Holotype: UF (was FSM) 53333, an adult female, collected by Uta Schmidt, August 7, 1978 [chichiriviche] 
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CommentSee also T. venusta

Habitat: freshwater (lakes, ponds, rivers)

Distribution (callirostris): Not in Brazil fide COSTA & BERNILS 2015. See map in TTWG 2014: 361.

NCBI TaxonID: 365653 [chichiriviche] 
EtymologyNamed after calli (Greek) = a beauty, beautiful, and rostrum (Latin) = a beak, snout: “a beautiful or beauty snout or beak” (Ernst 2003). 
References
  • Acuña-Vargas, J. C. 2016. Anfibios y Reptiles asociados a cinco coberturas de la tierra, municipio de Dibulla, La Guajira, Colombia. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.), 32(2): 133-146 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1889. Catalogue of the chelonians, rhynchocephalians, and crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum, London, 311 pp. - get paper here
  • Daza, J.M. & Páez, V.P. 2007. Morphometric variation and its effect on reproductive potential in female Colombian Slider Turtles (Trachemys callirostris callirostris). Herpetologica 63 (2): 125-134 - get paper here
  • Fritz, U. & Bienert, H.-D. 1981. Übersicht über die neuweltliche Sumpfschildkrötengattung Chrysemys GRAY (Pseudemys GRAY = Synonym für Chrysemys GRAY). Herpetofauna 3 (10): 17-22 - get paper here
  • Fritz, U. & Havas, P. 2007. CHECKLIST OF CHELONIANS OF THE WORLD. Vertebrate Zoology 57(2): 149-368 - get paper here
  • Fritz, U., Herrmann, H. W., Rosen, P. C., Auer, M., Vargas-Ramírez, M., & Kehlmaier, C. 2024. Trachemys in Mexico and beyond: Beautiful turtles, taxonomic nightmare, and a mitochondrial poltergeist (Testudines: Emydidae). Vertebrate Zoology 74: 435-452 - get paper here
  • Gray,J.E. 1856. Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). British Museum, London, 79 pp. [1855] - get paper here
  • Günther, A. C. L. G. 1885. Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 pp. [published in parts from 1885-1902; reprint by the SSAR 1987] - get paper here
  • Iverson, J.B. 1992. A revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Richmond, Indiana, privately published, 363 pp.
  • KAMPRATH, U. 1990. Nachzucht der Venezuela - Schmuckschildkröte Chrysemys scripta (ornata) chichiriviche (PRITCHARD & TREBBAU 1984). Sauria 12 (1): 11-14 - 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
  • Martínez Silvestre, A. & Arias Bernal, L. 2004. Trachemys scripta callirostris: biology, use, and conservation of the Slider Turtle in Colombia. Reptilia (GB) (36): 48-53 - get paper here
  • Martinez-Silvestre, A. & Arias-Bernal, I. 2005. Trachemys callirostris callirostris: Biologie, Nutzung und Schutz der Kinnfleck-Schmuckschildkröte in Kolumbien. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (51): 78-82 - get paper here
  • Pritchard, P.C.H., and P. Trebbau. 1984. The Turtles of Venezuela. SSAR Contributions to Herpetology 2: viii + 402 pp.
  • Restrepo, Adriana;Vivian P. Páez, Brian C. Bock, Juan M. Daza, Isabel Díazgranados. 2014. Trachemys callirostris (Gray 1856) Icotea, Hicotea, Jicotea, Galápago. Catálogo de Anfibios y Reptiles de Colombia 2 (2): 7-12 - 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 [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour] 2014. Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014 - get paper here
  • TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. 2025. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th 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.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 10:1-575 - get paper here
  • TTWG; Anders G.J. Rhodin, John B. iverson, Roger Bour, Uwe Fritz, Arthur GeoRges, H. BRadley Shaffer, and Peter Paul van Dijk 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Pritchard, P.C.H., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 7:1–292. doi: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017 - get paper here
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  • 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
  • Wermuth, H., and R. Mertens. 1977. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Testudines, Crocodylia, Rhynchocephalia. Das Tierreich. Berlin. 100: i-xxvii, 1-174 - get paper here
 
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