Ornate slider
Juvenile ornate slider illustrated by James de Carle Sowerby
Conservation status
Vulnerable  ( IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Emydidae
Genus:	Trachemys
Species:	T. ornata
Binomial name
Trachemys ornata ( Gray, 1830) [2]
Synonyms [3]
Emys ornata Gray, 1831 Clemmys (Clemmys) ornata Fitzinger, 1835 Callichelys ornata Gray, 1863 Pseudemys ornata Cope, 1876 Chrysemys ornata Boulenger, 1889 Chrysemys [ornata] ornata Siebenrock, 1909 Pseudemys ornata ornata Mertens, Müller & Rust, 1934 Pseudemys scripta ornata Carr, 1938 Pseudomys scripta ornata Malkin, 1956 Chrysemys scripta ornata Smith & Taylor, 1966 Trachemys scripta ornata Iverson, 1985 Trachemys ornata King & Burke, 1989 Trachemys ornata ornata Walls, 1996

The ornate slider ^[4] (Trachemys ornata) ^[2] is turtle belonging to the genus Trachemys of the family Emydidae. It is found in Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa in western Mexico. ^[2]

Subspecies

• No subspecies ^[2]

References

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Bibliography

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-12-15.

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