Pond Slider
Trachemys scripta · described by (THUNBERG 1792)
The facts
- Scientific name
- Trachemys scripta
- First described
- (THUNBERG 1792)
- Also called
- Pond Slider, Red-eared Slider
- Class
- Reptiles (Reptilia)
- Order
- Turtles and Tortoises (Testudines)
- Family
- Emydidae
- Genus
- Trachemys
- Subspecies
- Trachemys scripta scripta (SCHOEPFF 1792)
- Trachemys scripta elegans (WIED 1838)
- Trachemys scripta troostii (HOLBROOK 1836)
Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.