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Distribution

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Continent: South-America
Distribution: Brazil (Maranhao, Santo Amaro)
Type locality: Brasil: MaranhÃ£o: Santo Amaro, 02°33'S, 43°14'W.

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Comprehensive Description

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Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995

[= Trachemys adiutrix Vanzolini, 1995]

Vanzolini, 1995, Rev. Brasil. Biol. 55(1):112, figs. 1–7, 2 of 3 figs. on unnumbered pl.

Paratype: USNM 329467 (formerly MZUSP 3226) (alcoholic male, CL 144 mm), from the type locality, collected by Paulo E. Vanzolini and Maria do Socorro Pinheiro, 9–11 Mar 1993.

Type Locality: “Brasil: Maranhão: Santo Amaro, 02°33′S, 43°14′W.”

Other Type Material: Holotype: MZUSP 3224. Paratypes: MZUSP 3221–23, 3225.

Etymology: The feminine Latin adiutrix, helper, honors Dr. Maria do Socorro Pinheiro, who rediscovered the species and was Vanzolini’s field companion.

Remarks: The specimen was cited as MZUSP 3226 in the original description.

FAMILY GEOEMYDIDAE

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bibliographic citation: Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626

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Maranhão slider

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The Maranhão slider (Trachemys adiutrix), also commonly known as the Brazilian slider^[3]^[4] or Carvalho's slider, is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae.

Geographic range

Trachemys adiutrix is endemic to northeastern Brazil. One of its English common names refers to the Brazilian state of Maranhão, but it also occurs in the Brazilian state of Piauí.

Etymology

The specific name, adiutrix, which is Latin feminine for "helper", comes in honor of Dr. Maria do Socorro Pinheiro, field companion of Vanzolini.^[4] Her surname, Socorro, means "help" in Portuguese.^[5]

The eponym, Carvalho's slider, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.^[3]

Taxonomy

T. adiutrix is sometimes considered a subspecies of T. dorbigni as T. dorbigni adiutrix.^[4]

References

^ Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (1996). Trachemys adiutrix. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 201. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. S2CID 87809001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
^ ^a ^b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trachemys adiutrix, p. 49).
^ ^a ^b ^c Species Trachemys dorbigni at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ http://www.wordreference.com/pten/Socorro.

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